384 LAMPREYS. 



pharyngeal beds of other fishes, rather than to have an analogy 

 with such as are set in the jaws of other families. A further 

 declension from the type of fishes, with a still more decided 

 approach to the annelid form, will be discerned in those 

 groups that will follow the Lampreys, and which will close 

 our history of the fishes that have been hitherto found in the 

 British Islands, with the exception of a short supplement of 

 such as have been discovered later than the publication of the 

 regular order to which they belong. 



