advertisement. 
an which, as the specimen itself could not be obtained, 
was thought sufficiently interesting to justify such a de- 
viation from our first resolution. 
At the commencement of the publication of this work 
n parts, the number of fishes in preparation was stated 
out one hundred subjects. This extensive number, it 
line ei stood, included all the more common and abun- 
in s of fishes, in addition to such a selection of the 
laiei species as had been procured through the exertions 
le authoi and the medium of his friends. Possessing 
lose, t ic work ivas undertaken with the design of being 
volumes, or in the event of obtaining 
ahi? and the publication itself being favour- 
vohimf 1 ^ ^ *®’^'ainder. The addition of a fifth 
time fin accordingly ; but in the course of 
so on the publication began, the author has 
sitio enriched his collection with new acqni- 
the found inadequate to comprise 
altnlltT ^ number of those latter additions amount 
tl. em . " “■'‘I i" “ ind«l<= 
pionosed witiiout exceeding, tlic utmost limits 
the mns/f conceived advisable to exclude some of 
rari.r “"'I tl.ose 
tile cause o “cvelu'"'' ■ '>tplaiu 
fishes iu the present ‘ 
lie cousWered a neeulL^ ‘T 
thus rendered „,me- ‘“'“'tuge. tlie work itself heiug 
subjects tlnn *“ l»u"t of rare and beautiful 
; that the omission of the commoii Eel, the 
