FISHES of the South and East of Asia.
Samkat, . . . ARAB. Pisces , LAT.
An-gna, . . . BORIC Ikan, . . . . MALAY. Fisk, . . . DA.11.7 SW. Main, . . . . Prais.
vissehen, . . . Dur. Rybi, . . . POLISH.
Poisson, . . . . Fn. Piettee, . . . . PoRr.
Fisch GER. Rub Res.
1chthus , Gn. Peseados, . . . SP.
Dag, HEIL Alin , Tem.
Matchli, Matchli, HIND. Chapu Peace, IT During the 18th and 19th centuries, this branch of the natuml history of the East Indies has re ceived the attention of many learned zoologists. Bloch, in 1785, published his splendid work on Auslandische Fische. This and his Iehthyologie, and tho continuation of the latter by Schneider, contain many Indian forms, aa does Lacdpedes Histoire des Poissons, 1798-1803. In 1803 there appeared Dr. Patrie.lc Russell's book in two volumes, containing descriptions tuid figures of 200 fishes collected at Vizagapatam on the coast of Coromandel. In 1822, in a 4to volume, Dr. Hamilton gave an account of 269 fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches, with a volume of plates. The voluminous work by Baron Curler and M. Valenciennes, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, published in Paris in 1828 and following years, was of great value to science. A beautiful volume of much importance, tho Fauna Japonica, was published in 1847 by MM. Ph. Fr. de Siebold, C. J. Ternminek, II. Schlegel, and W. de Haan, Lugduni Batavorum 1847. In 1841 there was iasued at Berlin the Systenuitische Beschreibung der Plagioatomen by Dr. J. Milner and Dr. J. Ilenle, which included many of the genera and specie's of the leas in the S. and E. of Asia. Dr. M'Clelland of the Bengal Army, in 1842, in the Calcutta Journal of Natural History, described the fresh-water fishes which Dr.• Griffiths had collected ; and subsequently, in 1843, he described a collection made at Chusau and Ningpo. in 1834 Mr. J. W. Bennett published a Selection of Rare and Curious Fishes found on the Coast of Ceylon. Drs. Ruppell in 1828 and Peters in 1868 described the fishes of the Red Sea and those found south wards to Mozambique ; and the fishes near the Cape were described by Dr. Smith. Dr. Day, in 1865, published his Fishes of Malabar, the new species _in- which were lodged in the British Museum. ; The fishes of China and Japan were described by Sir John Richardson in the Report of the British Association in 1845. ' Dr. M'Clel land published a memoir on the Indian Cyprinidm in the 'As. :Res: xix. p. 217. . Colonel Sykes
wrote on the Fishes of the Dekhan in the TraniaCtions 'of: the Zoological Society in 1841. Fische aus ' Caschmir were described by MM. von . Hugel and Heckel in 1838. Dr. Kelaart of Ceylon paid much attention to the ichthy ology of the island. - Dr.' Theodore Cantor in 1850 furnished, hi the Bengal Asiatic Society's Journal, a minute account of 292 fishes of the Malay Archipelago: From .1845 to 1860 Dr. P. Blocker, in numerous contributions on the fishes of the Eastern Archipelago, added greatly to the stock of knowledge of the seas of the region from Penang to Japan. Mr. E. Blyth, long the Ctuator of the Bengal Asiatic Society's Museum, from time to time published in the Bengal Asiatic Society Journal, notices of fish; and T. C. Jerdon, a medical 'officer of the Madras army, in the Madras.Literary Society's Journal, gave several contributions on the fresh-water and op the salt water Ash:es ,of, the Peninsula. Dr. A. Giinther, in addition to .all that he had written in the Proceedings of . the Zoological Society and other journals, iu the years 1859 to '1870' brought out eight vbliimes of a catalogue of the",fishes in the collection, of the. British Museum ; and in 1866, conjointly with Lieut.-Colonel I,. Playfair, pub lished an illustrated volume .on. the • Fishes of Zanzibar, the Seychelles, and Chagos Islands. Dr. Klunzinger in 1870-1871, published a de tailed account of the Fische des Rothen Meeres. Later still, Dr. Day has written (1875-77) an invaluable work on the Fishes' of India, Ceylon, and Burma, with many monographs and numerous reports on the sea and fresh-water fishes and fisheries of India. The scientific *arrangement of this branch of Natural History is as.follows From the continuity of the waters from the Red Sea and east coast of Africa, through the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, into the seas of the Archipelago, around Australia and into the Pacific and Polynesia, it is probable that many of the fishes which are now only known as inhabiting a particular sea, will be found throughout that line of ocean, and that the great natural barriers will be found to be Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope on the south, to pass either of which capes would throw the fish of the tropical seas into cold regions.