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2nd. Of a short notice on the fishes of Victoria in Professor 
M'Coy’s Report on the Zoology of the Colony, in the “ Inter- 
colonial Exhibition Essays, 1866-1867.” In this paper the 
learned author has endeavoured to give the scientific names of 
the common fishes of the market, and in this he has, in general, 
well succeeded. There are also to he found some interestins: 
observations on several sorts in this essay. 
3rd. A short paper by Dr. Gunther on a few Victorian sorts 
in the “Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1863.” 
■Irth. Several papers of Sir J. Richardson in the “ Transac- 
tions of the Zoological Society” (vol. hi.); the Proceedings of 
the same, 1839-1840 , and in the .Annals and l\Iagazine of 
Natural History, 1842-1843.” 
But if the materials on Australian fishes, published in works 
particularly devoted to them, are few, on the other hand all 
the publications made on the Scientific Expeditions sent by 
England, Erance, and other countries contain numerous descrip- 
tions and plates of Australian sorts, and Sir J. Richardson, in 
the “ Ichthyology of the Voyage of the Erelns and Terror,” has 
given a most valuable account of the sorts brought by that 
expedition from the Antarctic Seas. The work of this celebrated 
Ichthyologist forms the most valuable contribution to Australian 
Ichthyology ever published. 
Of the general works on the science, two deserve a special 
notice. The first is the great “ Ilistoire Naturelle des Poissons ” 
of Cuvier and Valenciennes, which was left incomplete at its 
22nd volume by the death of the first of its illustrious authors. 
This work is the base of the science, and not only recapitulates in 
an admirable manner all that had previously been published on it^ 
but describes an immense number of new sorts. It is in this 
magnificent work that the great Cuvier gives the details of the 
system of which he had published the outlines in his “ Megne 
Animal.” 
The second is Dr. Gunther’s “ Catalogue of the Pishes of the 
British Museum,” complete in eight volumes. This work is one 
of the most remarkable productions of modern science, and 
places its author high amongst zoologists. Dr. Gunther follows 
Cuvier’s system, but amends it considerably, and it must he 
