DEDICATION. 



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

 my Brother-Ichthyologists 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 :\I. HILGENDORF, of Berlin ; 



]\Iessrs. K. ITO, and S. MATSUBARA, of Japan ; 



Dr. christian LUTKEN, of Copenhagen ; 



Dr. ANDRE-JEAN MALIMGREN, of Helsingfors ; 



Prof. PIETRO PAYESI, 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 vox GRDIM, of St. Petersburg— 



in nieuiory of niucJi pleasant intercourse in the past, especially 

 dnrino; the recent FisheiHes Exhibitions in Berlin and Lon- 

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

 zuider popular appreciation, in America, of the importance 

 and interest of IcJithyological Science. 



