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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe DARWIN'S FISHES: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ICHTHYOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION * _Daniel Pauly_ Cambridge University Press: 2004. 366 pp. £55,

$80 0521827779 | ISBN: 0-521-82777-9 As a youth, Darwin was an avid angler, stating in correspondence that: “On the rainy days I go fishing, on the good ones Entomologizing.” During the

voyage of the _Beagle_, he collected and preserved in alcohol dozens of fish species, about which he recorded notes in _Fish in Spirits of Wine_ (the piscine part of his _Catalogue_, or

master list, of trip collections). Immediately after the voyage, Darwin successfully encouraged the British naturalist and clergyman Leonard Jenyns — who had previously turned down Captain

Fitzroy's original offer to be the _Beagle_'s naturalist — to complete the job of describing these fish specimens for science. This is a preview of subscription content, access via

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