172 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 3. 4. 
at the expense of the Royal Society of London of which both Wil- 
loughby and Ray were among the original fellows. This great work 
is an outstanding treatise on ichthyology, not merely because it is 
a work early in time and large in size, but particularly because in it 
was laid down the modern basis of the classification of fishes. 
Yarrell, William (1784-1856): "A History of British Fishes." London. 
The first edition of this elegant work with 400 illustrations was 
published at London, 1836; a second edition in 1849, and a third in 
1859. This work is the latest and best of the older works of its 
kind, and probably the most valuable. 
