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INDIAN CYPKINIDiE. 



By MR. JOHN M'CLELLAND, 



Assistant Surgeon Bengal, Medical, Service. 



Presented, 5th September, 1838. 



Dr. Patrick Russell published in 1803 an account of 200 species of 

 fishes found chiefly on the coast of Coromandel ; there appears to be no 

 copy of his work in Calcutta, nor have I been able to meet with it in 

 India; but his collection appears to have embraced few Cyprmidcp., and 

 scarcely any of those afterwards found in Bengal by Dr. Buchanan.* The 

 fishes of Ceylon as well as those of the Bay of Bengal have recently ex- 

 cited the attention of naturalists,! while those of the Sunderbuns and the 

 vicinity of Calcutta have long been objects of interest to collectors for 

 the Museums of France and the other parts of the continent, where alone 

 ichthyology seems to have been cultivated as a philosophical branch of 

 zoology. 



* Afterwards Dr. Buchanan Hamilton. As most of his publications have appeared under 

 the name of Buchanan, authors should follow the example of Cuvier in the Regne Animal and 

 Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons in referring to the author of the Gangetic Fishes by the name by 

 which he is best and will be universally known, in proportion as his vast works on Indian 

 statistics and Natural History transpire. 



t Mr. Bennett and my friend Dr. Cantor. 



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