650 Researches on the Gale and Hurricane, fyc. QAugust, 



might be thought by the possessor, may contribute to the end we seek. 

 Mr. Hudson's valuable barometrical observations on board the Hope 

 Floating Light, I have alluded to at p. 589 ; and I may state here, that 

 those of the Hurricane of October, 1832, quoted by Col. Reid p. 269, as 

 taken at Chandernagore, are my own ; and both prove to be of far more 

 utility than was at the time supposed by the observers. We may in- 

 deed, if allowed to speak metaphorically on such a subject, say, that 

 as the great pyramids of human knowledge must be built of separate 

 stones, no man can say, before he brings his to the builder, that it 

 may not become "the head stone of the corner !" 



Art. III. — Extracts from Mr. M ' Clelland's paper on Indian 

 Cyprinidoz. As. Res. Vol xix. Part II. 



For such of our readers as do not subscribe to the Researches of the 

 Society, we take this opportunity of extracting such parts of the 2nd 

 part of the 19th vol. just published, as may be separated, without dis- 

 advantage from the rest of Mr. M< Clelland's paper. The utility of 

 Ichthyology is set forth in the following remarks. 



" Utility will always be found to depend more on the degree of atten- 

 tion paid to any subject connected with science, than on the nature 

 of the subject itself; yet it is a common remark that this, or that, 

 is important or frivolous, according as we happen to be acquainted with 

 it. When we find any branch of science regarded as useless, we may 

 be assured that, contrary to ordinary expectation, it will prove the most 

 productive field we can enter. Science, indeed, can only be use- 

 ful where it has been cultivated, and its principles worked out ; practi- 

 cal results will then follow in proportion to the pains taken to develop 

 them. 



" The moral interest of Ichthyology having been sufficiently attend- 

 ed to throughout the preceding paper, I shall here pass it over, merely 

 remarking, that in common with other branches of natural science it is 

 calculated to improve the mind as well as the condition of society, 

 while its cultivation need not interfere with any duty, public or pri- 

 vate ; and £e\v who are placed on our coasts, or on the banks of any of 

 the noble rivers of India, who might not with amusement to them- 

 selves, and advantage to science, communicate many observations no- 



