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in Bombay Harbour, and before many days most of 

 the men were paid off, and most of the officers departed 

 to their monsoon quarters at Poona, there to prepare 

 the season's survey-work for publication. I went into 

 recess quarters at the Indian Museum in Calcutta, 

 where I stayed until October, working at the fishes 

 which had been collected during this and previous 

 seasons. The results of this work were published in 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1889 

 and 1890, and in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History for November and December 1889. 



I take great pleasure in recording here my deep 

 obligations to Dr Gunther's Introductio7i to the Study 

 of Fishes, and Catalogue of the Fishes in the British 

 Museum, which were two of the works that I found 

 in my little laboratory on joining the Investigator at 

 Port Blair. Thanks to their aid — so clear, so concise, 

 and so coherent — I was able to make my first ventures 

 along the steep and thorny path of systematic zoology 

 with some courage and confidence. 



