114 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



At the conclusion of his University courses he visited London, 

 and his services at the Museum commenced in 1857, being first 

 employed on a ' Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes,' published in 1858, 

 and extending to nearly 300 pages. In the same year was issued his 

 'Catalogue of Batrachia Salientia,' pp. 176, with 12 plates. He then 

 commenced his great work the ' Catalogue of Eishes,' completed in 

 eight volumes. These comprised over 4000 pages, with text figures, 

 and occupied most of his time during the next twelve years. In 

 1877 was issued his 'Account of the Gigantic Land Tortoises' 

 (living and extinct), containing 96 pages of text and illustrated 

 with 55 plates. 



His report on the Eeptilia, Batrachia and Fishes from Melanesia, 

 and Eeptilia from the Western Indian Ocean, obtained by H.M.S. 

 ' Alert,' was published in 1884. The foregoing constitute practically 

 all the works published by the Museum, of which he was author. 



His other chief writings are : — ' Die Fische des Neckars,' 1855 ; 

 ' Handbuch der Medicinischen Zoologie,' 1858; 'The Beptiles of 

 British India,' 1864 ; ' The Fishes of Zanzibar,' 1866 ; ' Description 

 of Fishes from Vancouver ' in J. K. Lord's " The Naturalist in 

 Vancouver Island and British Columbia," Appendix, 1866 ; in the 

 Appendix to vol. ii. of ' Mouhot's Travels in the Central Parts of 

 Indo-China,' &c, " Lists of New Species of Mammalia, Eeptiles 

 and Freshwater Fishes," 1864 ; ' The Fishes of the Nile ' in 

 Petherick's "Travels in Central Africa," vol. ii. Appendix, 1869; 

 ' Eeptiles and Fishes of the South Sea Islands ' in Brenchley's 

 "Cruise of H.M.S. 'Curacoa'," 1873; 'A List of the Saurians of 

 Australia and New Zealand ' in the " Zoology of the Voyage of 

 H.M.S. ' Erebus ' and ' Terror '," vol. ii. 1875 ; ' Fishes from the 

 Arctic Eegions ' in Nare's " Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar 

 Eegions," vol. ii. Appendix 4, 1878 ; ' Die Fische der Siidsee,' 1873- 

 1910; 'Introduction to the Study of Fishes,' 1880; 'Shore Fishes 

 of the "Challenger" Expedition,' 1880; 'The Deep Sea Forms,' 

 1887 ; and his ' Account of the Pelagic Species,' 1889 ; ' Description 

 of Fishes from the Arctic Eegions ' in Markham's " A Polar Eecon- 

 naisance — Voyage of the 'Isbjorn' to Novaya Zemlya," Appendix i. 

 1881 ; ' Herpetology of Matabale Land ' in Oates's " Matabeleland 

 and Victoria Falls," Appendix ill. 1881 ; ' Eeport on the Fishes ' in 

 Tizard and Murray's " Exploration of the Faroe Channel in 1880 

 in the 'Knight Errant'," 1882 ; ' On the Eeptilia and Batrachia ' in 

 Godman and Salvin's " Biologia Centrali-Americana," 1885-1902; 

 ' List of Eeptiles and Fishes collected on the Upper Yang-tze-kiang,' 



