CONTENTS 



VOL. II. 

 CHAPTER I. 



THE GANOIDS. 



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Subclass Actinopteri. The Series Ganoidei. Are the Ganoids a Natural 

 Group? Systematic Position of Lepidosteus. Gill on the Ganoids as a 

 Natural Group i 



CHAPTER II. 



THE GANOIDS (Continued'). 



Classification of Ganoids. Order Lysopteri. The Palaeoniscidae. The Platy- 

 somidae. The Dorypteridae. The Dictyopygidae. Order Chondrostei. 

 Order Selachostomi : the Paddle-fishes. Order Pycnodonti. Order Lepi- 

 dostei. Family Lepisosteidae. Embryology of the Garpike. Fossil Gar- 

 pikes. Order Halecomorphi. Pachycormidae. The Bowfins: Amiidae. 

 The Oligopleuridae 13 



CHAPTER III. 



ISOSPONDYLI. 



The Subclass Teleostei, or Bony Fishes. Order Isospondyli. The Classifica- 

 tion of the Bony Fishes. Relationships of Isospondyli. The Clupeoidea. 

 The Leptolepidae. The Elopidae. The Albulidae. The Chanidae. The 

 Hiodontidae. The Pterothrissidae. The Ctenothrissidae. The Notopteri- 

 dae. The Clupeidae. The Dorosomatidae. The Engraulididae. Gono- 

 rhynchidae. The Osteoglossidae. The Pantodontidae 37 



CHAPTER IV. 



SALMONID/E. 



The Salmon Family. Coregonus, the Whitefish. Argyrosomus, the Lake Her- 

 ring. Brachymystax and Stenodus, the Inconnus. Oncorhynchus, the 

 Quinnat Salmon. The Parent-stream Theory. The Jadgeska Hatchery. 

 Salmon-packing 61 



