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GUNTHER'S “Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum” was issued in 1859 70, and has long been out of print. The great work of Cuvier and Valenciennes was never finished, and Giinther's is the only complete systematic monograph of the group in existence, and is therefore indispensable to ichthyologists. The time that has elapsed since Giinther prepared his catalogue has seen the collection on which it was based quadrupled, and the number of known species about doubled; these factors alone would make the preparation of a revised edition a heavy task, and if to them be added the necessary study of the numerous systematic monographs and faunistic memoirs that have appeared since the catalogue was published, it is clearly one that no man could hope to complete. In these circumstances, to meet an evident demand, the Trustees of the British Museum have decided to reissue the “Catalogue of Fishes” in its original form, and at the original price of £3 9s. for the complete work in eight volumes. It will be available early in 1937.
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Catalogue of Fishes. Nature 138, 1092 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381092c0
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