INTRODUCTION. X1 



In conclusion, it may be stated, that the whole of the species in the col- 

 lection of fish brought home by Mr. Darwin, described in the following pages, 

 have been deposited by him in the Museum of the Philosophical Society of 

 Cambridge. They are mostly in spirit, and, generally speaking, in a good state 

 of preservation ; some few, however, are in the state of skins only, and have 



been mounted. 



L. JENYNS. 



Swaffkam Bulbeck, 

 Jem. 8, 1842. 



