[Icthyology] James Carson Brevoort. ALS to D. Humphreys Storer, related to fish in New York City. June 10, 1856. Brevoort says he has sent by express a number of specimens, with taxonomic names. “They were caught last summer. With my seine net I can get them in countless numbers in Jamaica Bay. Were I to have a net made with smaller… I think that they might be procured in sufficient quantity to be profitable…” (p1, lines 3-9). Brevoort (1818-1887) accompanied James Renwick on his northeastern boundary survey as engineer and was also a secretary to Washington Irving in Spain, superintendent of the Astor Library, and donated over 10,000 books to institutions in New York with which he was associated. His works include “Notes on some figures of Japanese Fish” (In Narrative of Commodore M.C. Perry’s Expedition to Japan, Vol II, pp253-88). D. Humphreys Storer wrote “Icthyology and Herptetology of Massachusetts” (1839), later expanded to “A History of Fishes in Massachusetts” (1867). 12mo. [4] pp. P. [1] has 3 pencil numbers from a bookseller not overlapping text. Otherwise near fine. From the Raymond Sutton Jr. Collection of rare and antiquarian books on natural history and science.