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A history of British fishes / By William Yarrell ... Illustrated by nearly 400 woodcuts.

  • William Yarrell
Date:
1836
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Credit: A history of British fishes / By William Yarrell ... Illustrated by nearly 400 woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other classes in natural history, as well as to the Quadrupeds and Birds. It is certain that he had once contemplated pro- ducing a work on Bririsu Fisues: but he had abandoned the design before his lamented death in 1828. Some few engravings of British Fishes were executed by him with his usual success, impressions of which were occasionally to be seen in the possession of his most intimate friends. The time that has now elapsed since his death leaves but little room to hope that this branch was ever so far prose- cuted by him as to be made available in the present day, or that an object so desirable as a work on Britisu FisHEs executed to any extent by him can now be expected. Could it have been ascertained that any such intention still existed at Newcastle, the present work would never haye been attempted. | An extensive collection of Bririsu FisHes in the pos- session of the author, containing upwards of one hundred and sixty species, to increase which no opportunity has been neg- lected during several past years, and the cordial assistance of some of the best naturalists from Scotland to the Land’s End, are among the advantages the author of this work has enjoyed to assist him in his undertaking. To Mr. Couch of Polperro, the indefatigable ichthyologist of Cornwall, the author is indebted for several examples of the most rare species found on the Cornish coast, for the use of a large and. valuable collection of characteristic coloured drawings, and the whole of his manuscript notes. W. J. Broderip, Esq. Vice-President of the Zoological and Geological Societies, having in his possession an inter- leaved copy of Mr. Donovan’s Natural History of British Fishes, which formerly belonged to the late Colonel Mon- tagu, the author of the Ornithological Dictionary and Tes- tacea Britannica, containing voluminous notes in his own
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