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THE house of Hr. Cesar Godeffroy & Co. of Hamburg have for several years employed scientific collectors in various parts of the Pacific to prepare and send home specimens of natural history. These have been stored up at Hamburg, in what is now a well-known scientific institution, the “Museum Godeffroy,” under the care of an active superintendent, whose services have been engaged to take charge of and arrange the various objects thus accumulated. But not content with thus bringing the rarities of the Pacific within the grasp of European naturalists, Herr Godeffroy has obtained the assistance of some of the best known workers in Science for examination of these materials. The extensive collections of birds made for him by Dr. Edward Graffe were submitted to the well-known ornithologists Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub of Bremen, and formed the basis of their excellent work on the “Birds of Central Polynesia,” published a few years since. For the working out of the Polynesian Fishes, of which we believe, Herr Godeffroy's collection is still more complete, the co-operation of Dr. Günther of our National Museum, the most distinguished of living ichthyologists, has been obtained, and the book now before us contains the first-fruits of Dr. Günther's labours.
Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee beschrieben ünd redigirt.
Von Albert C. L. G. Günther, Heft i. (Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Co., 1873.)
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Andrew Garrett's Fische der Südsee beschrieben ünd redigirt . Nature 9, 120 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009120a0
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