DEDICATION. 



This little book on the fishes of America, is dedicated to 

 my Brother-IcJUhyologists in other lands 



Dr. NICHOLAS APOSTOLIDES, of Athens ; 



Dr. ROBERT COLLETT, of Christiania ; 



Dr. FRANCIS DAY, of Cheltenham, England; 



Prof. ENRICO H. GIGLIOLI, of Florence ; 



Dr. ALBERT C. L. G. GUNTHER, of the British Museum; 



Dr. JAMES HECTOR, of New Zealand ; 



Prof. A. A. HUBRECHT, of Utrecht; 



Dr. FRANZ M. HILGENDORF, of Berlin ; 



Messrs. K. ITO, and S. MATSUBARA, of Japan ; 



Dr. CHRISTIAN LUTKEN, of Copenhagen ; 



Dr. ANDRE-JEAN MALMGREN, of Helsingfors ; 



Prof. PIETRO PAVESI, of Pavia ; 



Dr. EMILE SAUVAGE, of Paris ; 



Prof. F. A. SMITT, of Stockholm ; 



Don FELIPE POEY, of Havana ; 



Dr. FRANZ STEINDACHNER, of Vienna; 



Dr. DECIO VINCIGUERRA, of Rome ; 



Prof. OSCAR von GRIMM, of St. Petersburg— 



in memory of much pleasant intercourse in tJie past, especially 

 during the recent Fisheries Exhibitions in Berlin and Lon- 

 don, and with the hope that its publication may lead to a 

 wider popular appreciation, in America, of the importance 

 and interest of Ichthyological Science. 



V^AdYuwyoUi^^ 



