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William Houghton (1828–1895) was an

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naturalist and

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, noted for being the author of ''British Fresh-Water Fishes''.

Life

Houghton was rector of Preston on the Weald Moors in

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. A serious naturalist, he became a Fellow of the

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. To produce his major work, Houghton studied fish specimens at the

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Bibliography

*''British Fresh-Water Fishes'' (2 vols.)

Alexander Francis Lydon Alexander Francis Lydon (; 1836–1917) was a British watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been apprenticed from an early age. He collabo ...

(artist),

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(printer).

William Mackenzie (publisher) William Mackenzie (of Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin) was a well-known publisher of natural history books in the 1870s. He published works by the trio of Francis Orpen Morris, Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon. His best-known publ ...

, London: 1879 : Colour plates of British fresh water fish in two volumes. The 41 colour plates generally show fish against a natural background or swimming in an underwater setting. The volumes show 38 engraved heading views of regions where the fish occur with diagrams. The text describes the species and their habitats. The volumes are bound in embossed covers with a

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of an angler holding a fish and freshwater fish motifs in the corners. *''Country Walks of a Naturalist with his Children'' *''Sea-side Walks of a Naturalist'' * ''Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients'' (1879)

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