Mr. S Pether was our leading counsel and guide in regard to the fine art departments of drawing and engraving the fishes, which Sir John, at first, estimated at thirty, but when the list came to be made, we found only the following:—British fresh water fishes: 1. pike; 2. perch; 3. carp; 4. tench; 5. trout; 6. barbel; 7. grayling; 8., gwynnard, in Bala Pool, North Wales; 9. char, in Windermere; 10. chub; 11. bream; 12. roach; 13. dace; 14. pope; 15. bleak;

The cherished plan of a publication between Sir J. Leicester and I was thus announced:—

The idea was more specifically developed in the annexed suggestions in the handwriting of my respected coadjutor.

16. eel; 17. gudgeon; 18. loach; 19., minnow; 20. miller's thumb; 21. stickleback: river fish: 1. salmon; 2. smelt; 3. flounder; 4. lamprey eel, in the Severn.—Total 25.

The cost of the drawings and engravings was estimated at 200 guineas, of which the moiety was to be paid for the former by Sir John, and the second hundred for the engravings, to be repaid by the publication if it succeeded, any surplus to be mine. There was to be a popular octavo edition, after the quarto, with wood-cuts, as in Salter and Walton; when I got assent to the corporeal introduction of my small-fry friends, the minnows, sticklebacks, loaches and miller's thumbs. The plates were to be about the size of those in old Albin's “History of Esculent Fishes,” 1794; and we had a bream executed as a specimen by Mr. Clarke, recommended by Pether.