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Two other naturalists, employed by the Museum, Messrs. Lau- 
rillard and Bibron, were sent to the coasts of the Mediterranean to 
complete our knowledge of the numerous fish of that sea. 
Mr. Laurillard occupied himself at Nice fishing constantly for 
six months, and assisted by the influence of Mr. Risso. 
Mr. Bibren went into Sicily, where he endeavoured to obtain 
the fish mentioned by Mr. Rafinesque, and where he had also the 
pleasure of finding many new species. 
Mr. Kiener, another naturalist of the Museum, who was travel- 
ling with the Duke of Rivoli, made a considerable collection at 
Toulon. 
A great number of new species were sent home, accompanied 
by drawings, coloured at the expense of Mr. Alcide D’Orbigny, at 
this moment employed by the Museum in the states of Buenos 
Ayres and Chili. : 
Mr. Ricord sent in species from St. Domingo ; Mr. Le Sueur, 
from the river of Ouabache ; and Mr. d’Espinville, French consul 
at_ New Orleans, bas sent specimens from the waters around that 
town, and, more particularly, from the Lake Pont-Chartrain. 
Dr. Ravenell, at Charlestown, also procured some beautiful species 
from the fresh waters of Carolina. 
By the successful results of the expedition of Captain D’Urville, 
Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard have been enabled to complete, by 
new collections made at New Guinea, at New Zealand, and other 
distant shores, those which they had already sent from the Cape 
and from Port Jackson. 
Mr. Rifaud, who had established himself in Upper Egypt dur- 
ing several years, collected, with the greatest care, the fish of the 
Upper Nile, and brought back figures and skeletons, which were 
so much the more interesting to Mr. Cuvier, as by them he was 
enabled to institute comparisons with those ef Senegal, brought 
home by Mr. Perotet, and which belong to the same genera, and 
oftentimes to species very much alike. 
Messrs. Mertens, Ketlitz, and Postels, who accompanied the 
Russian expedition of circumnavigation under the command of 
Captain Lutke, also exhibited their numerous drawings of the fish 
of Kamschatka, and of other coasts and rivers of the Pacific 
Ocean. 
The commission sent into the Morea by the French government 
has also just sent home its collections. Mr. Bory St. Vincent, se- 
conded by Dr. Pector, an excellent Grecian scholar, collected, with 
much care, the names which the fish bear at the present day on 
those coasts, and which, in many instances, may lead to the know- 
ledge of their ancient nomenclature. 
The first volume of the fish of Brazil, by Messrs. Spix and 
Martius; and the Ichthyological part of the Journey of Mr. Ruppel; 
and that of Mr. Ehrenberg in Nubia, in Abyssinia, and the Red 
Sea, have lately appeared ; and Fr. Faber’s history of the fish of 
Iceland is also a work which will be of the greatest use, 
