. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. fore Poey, Guichenot of Parishad written on the fishes collected in Cuba byRamon de la Sagra. Philip H. Gosse (1810-88) wrote on the fishes of Jamaica. Muchearlier, Robert Herrmann Schomburgk (1804-65) wrote on the fishes of British papers on the Caribbean fishes werecontributed by Johannes Mviller and F. H. Tro-schel, and by Richard Hill and J. Hancock. Besides the work in South America of Marc-grave, Agassiz, Reinhardt, Liitke
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. fore Poey, Guichenot of Parishad written on the fishes collected in Cuba byRamon de la Sagra. Philip H. Gosse (1810-88) wrote on the fishes of Jamaica. Muchearlier, Robert Herrmann Schomburgk (1804-65) wrote on the fishes of British papers on the Caribbean fishes werecontributed by Johannes Mviller and F. H. Tro-schel, and by Richard Hill and J. Hancock. Besides the work in South America of Marc-grave, Agassiz, Reinhardt, Liitken, Steindach-ner, Jenyns, Boulenger, and others alreadynamed, we may note the local studies of Berg in Argentina, Dr. R. A. Philippi inChile, and special records of Humboldt, Gar-man, J. F. Abbott, and others in recent H. Eigenmann and also Jordan and Eigen-mann have studied the great collections madein Brazil by Agassiz. Steindachner has de-scribed the collection of Johann Natterer andGilbert those made by Dr. John C. most recent extensive studies of the myr-iads of Brazilian river-fishes are those of A Ribbon-fish or Garfish (Regalecus). fessor Schlegel, of the University of Leyden,described in The Fauna of Japonica the fishescollected about Nagasaki in Japan by Ph. Siebold and Burger. Pieter van Bleeker (1819-78), a surgeonin the Dutch East Indies, is the most volumi-nous writer in ichthyology. His chief work isthe Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes OrientalesNeerlandaises, illustrated by colored writings of Dr. Bleeker constitute the chiefsource of our knowledge of the fauna of theEast Indies. Dr. Van Lidth de Jeude, of theUniversity of Leyden, is the author of a fewdescriptive papers on fishes. The fish fauna of Cuba has been the lifelongstudy of Dr. Felipe Poey y Aloy (1799-1891),a pupil of Cuvier, for a half century or morethe honored professor of zoology in the Univer-sity of Havana. Of his many useful papers,
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