Handbook of the Freshwater Fishes of India

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I have been under the disadvantage of being far from the reach of any standard library or large museum to refer to. In cases of difficulty. This draw back would have been indeed fatal, were it not for the British Museum Catalogue, in which all the In formation previously published by various authors has been laboriously collected together. Such species as are insufficiently known, or which for any reason are doubtful, I have placed apart in an Appendix. I have collected all the Synonyms by which the various Species have been from time to time described by different authors, together with such vernacular Indian names as I have been able to extract from various writers, or have myself become acquainted with, into an Index. By this means I have avoided the necessity of loading the descriptions of species with a crowd of names.