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This institution was also enriched, through the industry 

 of Monsr. Delalande, a Naturalist, who visited this 

 Colony in 1820, where he made large and valuable col- 

 lections, and by Mr. Jules Verreaux, deservedly known 

 for his consummate skill in preparing and mounting 

 specimens, illustrative of Natural History, who, during 

 his nine years residence at the Cape, from 1825 — 1834, 

 sent home to Paris, amongst other zoological objects, 

 many species of Cape fishes. 



In like manner, the Museums of the Netherlands 

 received ichthyological specimens through the late Dr. 

 Huberttjs Benedictus van Horstock, of Alkmaar, 

 a zealous Zoologist and a Physician, who, for his medical 

 acquirements, will live long in the recollection of many 

 an old patient and friend. 



Dr. Lourenco Jose Moniz, from 1844 — 1846, one of 

 H. P. M. Commissioners to the Mixed British and Por- 

 tuguese Court for the suppression and abolition of the 

 Slave Trade, greatly interested himself in the study of 

 Cape fishes, a collection of which he took with him, on 

 his return to Lisbon. 



Cape Ichthyology however owes most to the indefatiga- 

 ble exertions and labours of that renowned South African 

 traveller, Dr. Andrew Smith, whose admirable work on 

 the Zoology of this country, not only contains beautiful 

 illustrations, but also the most elaborate descriptions 

 of a number of fishes, peculiar to the Cape of Good Hope. 



The account given in the following pages, merely 

 contains the edible fishes caught in Table Bay and Palse 

 Bay, as also on the coast of Hottentots' Holland. Being 

 but imperfectly acquainted with the fresh- water fishes, 

 found in the rivers of the Colony, I have omitted them 

 here, though some are said to be excellent. 



Dr. W. H. Harvey, in his work on the Genera of 

 South African plants, justly remarks, that there exists a 

 marked difference with regard to the species of Algae 

 found in Table Ray, and those in the bays eastward of 



