Identifier: historyoffisheso04couch (find matches)
Title: A history of the fishes of the British Islands
Year: 1862 (1860s)

Alexander Francis Lydon  (1836–1917)
	Alternative names	A. F. Lydon
	Description	British aquarellist, illustrator, copper engraver and lithographer
	Date of birth/death	1836	1917
	Location of birth/death	Dublin	Brentford
	Work period	late 1840s
	Work location	Driffield, London
	Authority file	: Q2642129 VIAF: 54021252 ISNI: 000000006707112X ULAN: 500007150 LCCN: nr93023999 GND: 1015248950 WorldCat

Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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shes, vol. i, p. 355. So little was formerly known of this fish that Gesner says hecould not find it had been mentioned by any writer beforeDubravius, and much uncertainty still rests upon it whenconsidered as a British fish; for although Pennant mentions afish of this name as known to himself, it is supposed to havebeen by mistake for the Prussian Carp; and Mr. Yarrell hadobtained it in a few instances from the Thames; yet this isconsistent with the belief that the species was at first introducedamong us, and that even at a recent date. This indeed isasserted or implied in the experiments of which it was thesubject; and of which an account is given in our history of theCarp. In what is there referred to the examples had beenprocured from Hamburg, where the fish appears to have beenwell known; for Linnaeus refers to the Acts or Transactions ofthe University of Ui^sal, where it is called by the elderGronovius Cyprinus Hamburger, as characteristic of the placewhere chiefly it was found.
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CRUCIAN. 29 It is easy to suppose that some of these fishes which had beenobtained from the continent of Europe, where they are notrare, may have been set free in the Thames without havingbeen operated on in the manner described, and there they mayhave continued the race; but that the operation from which wehave an account of their introduction into England was notsuch a novelty as was supposed, is rendered probable from thelines of Sir Philip Sidney, although the operation was performedupon another species:— We have a fish by strangers much admired, Which caught to cruel search yields his chief part;(With gall cut out) closed up again by art, Yet lives imtil his life be new required. Seven Wonders of England. The Crucian, like most of the species of this family is highlyretentive of life, and in consequence may be conveyed to con-siderable distances for the purpose of being propagated in pondsor slowly-flowing rivers; but it will scarcely repay the exj)enseor effort, as it is not h

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