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Alphabetical List of the more Important Contributors 

 to the Collection op Fishes. 



Admiralty, Lords of the. 



The collection of Fishes made during the voyage of H.M. Ships 

 Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Ross : 

 presented in 1844. 



The Fishes collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under the 

 command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher : presented in 1844. 



The Fishes obtained during the voyage of H.M.S. Herald, under the 

 command of Captain Kellett : presented in 1856. 



The above collections were separately reported on by Sir John 

 Richardson, and they contain the types of the new species described 

 by him. 



Bleeker (Pieter). [1819-1878] 



The Fishes received from Dr. Bleeker during the years 1859-1867 

 included all the types of the species described and figured by him in the 

 first four volumes of the " Atlas Ichthyologique," and also the types of 

 many species described in the later volumes. The British Museum 

 Collection contains the types of the Siluridse, CyprinidaB, Clupeidae, 

 Muraenidae, Labridae, Pleurunectidse, Gyninodontes, Lophobranchii and 

 Elasmobranchii described by Dr. Bleeker. 



Congo Free State, Secretary of State of the. 



The collections presented during the years 1898-1901 formed, to a 

 great extent, the basis of Mr. Boulenger's work, " Les Poissons du Bassin 

 du Congo," published in 1901, and contain co-types of the new species 

 described therein, and figured in the " Annales du Musee du Congo," 

 1898-1902. 



Coppinger (Richard William). 



During the survey of H.M.S. Alert in the years 1880-1882 

 Dr. Coppinger made collections of Fishes from the Straits of Magellan and 

 the South Pacific, and presented them to the Museum, where they have 

 been reported upon by Dr. Giinther. 



Day (Francis). [1829-1889] 



A large collection of Fishes made by Mr. Day and bequeathed by him 

 to the Museum, was acquired at his death in 1889. It included I 100 

 Indian Fishes and 155 British Saimonida3, many of them being co-typea 

 of the species described by him in the " Fishes of India," or illustrating 

 his account of the "Fishes of Great Britain," and "British and Irian 

 Salmonidse." 



DOW (J. C). 



Fishes obtained by Captain Dow in Central America and presented by 

 him to the Museum in 1861, 1864. and 1867, formed, with the coUections 

 made by Messrs. Godman and Salvin in 1859 and 1m..., the I- 

 Dr. Giinther's "Fishes of Central America," published in the " trans- 

 actions of the Zoological Society " in 1868. 



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