Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations of sources
Acknowledgements
Part One (to 1800)
Early ichthyology to the time of Ray and Willughby
Artedi, Linnaeus and the Systema Naturae
Linnaeus’ students, their voyages of discovery, and their French contemporaries
Seba, Dutch naturalists and the stadholder’s cabinet
Bloch and Schneider, Pallas, Lacépède, Broussonet
The British Museum before 1800 (Shaw)
Voyages to Australia before 1800
Collections in Australia before 1800
Part Two (1800 to 1870)
Flinders (Bauer, Brown) and Baudin (Péron and Lesueur)
French voyages (1817 to 1840)
Darwin (Jenyns)
Cuvier and Valenciennes, and their contributors
Gray at the British Museum, and the Bennetts
Richardson
Ichthyology and empire
Continental ichthyology
Bleeker
Günther
Fish collection and ichthyology in Australia (1800 to 1870)
Part Three (1870 to 1930)
Castelnau
Interregnum
Overseas contributions
Ogilby
Waite
McCulloch
Contemporaries of Ogilby, Waite and McCulloch
A glance forward from 1930
Appendix: Classification of fish species
Glossary
References
Index