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APPENDIX. 
CATALOGUE OF REPTILES AND FISH, 
FOUND AT KING GEORGE^ SOUND, 
BY DEPUTY ASSISTANT COMMISSARY-GENERAL NEILL, 
In a Letter to J. E. Gray, Esq. British Museum , London. 
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“ Sir, — Although in the course of my life, I have had 
little opportunity to pay attention to the study of Ichthyo- 
logy, it occurred to me, as now and then a leisure moment 
was afforded from official duties, that it would perhaps be 
useful, as well as amusing, to collect and make drawings 
of the fish about King George’s Sound ; and I have been 
in a great degree stimulated to do so, from an accidental 
visit of my friend, His Excellency Captain Grey, Governor 
of South Australia, who advised me to forward the drawings 
to you for the purpose of being placed with others of a 
similar kind in the British Museum, where ultimately 
sufficient material may be collected to give some account 
of the New Holland fish. 
“ Nothing is assumed as to the execution of the drawings ; 
in fact it often occurred when I set off in my little skiff, 
(especially in the outset) that seven or eight species were 
procured in the course of the excursion, which compelled 
me to make drawings of all when I came home tired in the 
evening ; forwarding them to ensure, as far as possible, their 
colours before they became extinct — a sort of forced effort 
in respect to the execution has, therefore, only been 
