Appendix III - Checklist of fish specimens, identified as collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage, that ought to be present in the collections of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Summary

This list is taken from a full manuscript list of Beagle fish that was transcribed from the relevant catalogues. The list below includes only those specimens that should currently be in the Museum collections. Many specimens were transferred to the British Museum (Natural History) in 1917 [see Appendix II].

The entries are mostly as found in the catalogues. Vagaries of spelling, style and punctuation have generally been retained, except where this would introduce confusion or ambiguity. Generic names have been expanded from their single-letter abbreviations where this is all that is given in the catalogue. Generic and specific names have been converted to italics for ease of reading.

Roman numerals refer to the volume numbers of the British Museum fish catalogues that were used as the basis of the Cambridge catalogues. The numbers that precede each entry are based on this volume number. Numbers refer to pages, not to individual specimens: several specimens may therefore be listed separately under the same number.

Round and square brackets are as used in the catalogue; curly brackets denote a comment included during the preparation of the list.

Most specimens were noted as present in the 1939 stock-take. Four (‘dry’) specimens not noted as present at the 1939 check remain missing. A few specimens not noted as present in 1939 are noted as present in subsequent years (and that information is included). Several specimens have no confirming marks from stock-taking.

The ‘EXHIBITED SERIES’ does not order the entries according to the British Museum catalogue.