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described and figured in Müller and Hisnle's Plagiostomen. This work 

 of Temminck and Schlegel was written with great care and is still the 

 most important document of the fishes of Japan. Later, in 1856, Mr. 

 James Carson Brevoort published a number of colored drawings ob- 

 tained by Commodore Perry's expedition giving names to the species 

 represented. At about the same time a few specimens from the same 

 source received names from Dr. Theodore Gill. In the course of his 

 prolonged studies of the fishes of the Dutch East Indies. Dr. Pieter Van 

 Bleeker obtained many Japanese specimens, which he recorded from 

 time to time in some of his multitude of papers. In 1879 he published 

 a list of known species from Japan under the title of " Enumeration des 

 Espèces de Poissons actuellement connues de Japon." This list fur- 

 nishes a useful clue to the literature although several species are included 

 in it on questionable authority. In the eight volumes of the Catalogue 

 of the fishes of the British Museum (1859-1870), Dr. Albert Günther 

 includes many references to Japanese fishes, and subsequently in differ- 

 ent papers, he has described a large number of new species. In the 

 Voyage of the Challenger, especially, many new species were made 

 known, especially from the deep seas about Yokohama and Enoshima. 

 About 1880 Dr. Eranz Hilgendorf of the University of Berlin, pub- 

 lished descriptions of numerous species of fishes obtained by him in his 

 stay as Professor in Tokyo. About 1883, Dr. Franz Steindachner, as- 

 sisted by Dr. L. Döderlein. published in four parts, under the title of 

 " Die Fische von Japan" a full record with many fine plates, of the species 

 taken by Dr. Döderlein in his stay in Tokyo. This admirable paper 

 ranks next to the work of Temminck and Schlegel in value to the stu- 

 dent of the fishes of Japan. Additional species have been described by 

 Steindachner (Fishes of Kobe), Sauvage (Poissons du Lac Biwaco), 

 Peters (Labracoglossa, etc.) Nystrom (fishes of Nagasaki. 1887), Gar- 

 man (Chlamydoselachics), Jordan (Hexagr amnios, Mitsukurina), Jordan 

 and Gilbert (Kuriles), and others. Especially important is a paper by 

 Dr. C. Ishikawa on the fishes of Lake Biwa, with a description of a new 



