he had the complete set, said to the same recipient that it was a "very beautiful work" although a few of the fish could have been better illustrated. Jardine himself published an enthusiastic review in his Magazine of Botany and Zoology. A History of British Fishes and the later A History of British Birds were both immediately commercially successful and became standard texts until the end of the nineteenth century. Van Vorst believed that Yarrell made around £4,000 from the two books. Yarrell's name is commemorated in a number of species, three of which are fish. These are Yarrell's blenny, Chirolophis ascanii, from the European North Atlantic coasts, the giant devil catfish, Bagarius yarrelli, from the rivers of the Indian subcontinent, and Laemonema yarrellii a deep sea morid cod from Madeira and the Great Meteor Seamount of the North Atlantic. Notes References Cited texts Bibliography A History of British Fishes First edition, 1835-36, Volume 1, volume 2. Supplement, 1839. Second edition, 1841, two volumes. Supplement to second edition, 1845. Third edition, 1859, volume 1 Volume 2 Second supplement to 1st edition, 1860. Other Four volumes. 1836 non-fiction books Natural history books Woodcuts