viii FISHERIES OF THE ADRIATIC. 



recreation, the present work may serve as guide to a field which hitherto 

 seems to have been much neglected by them. And, finally, the Zoologist 

 ' will be glad of finding in it a general review of the Adriatic Fauna with 

 its singularly varied character, and of the agencies by which its distribution 

 has been determined. 



I trust that the Author will be amply repaid for the sacrifices he has 

 had to make in the production of this work, by seeing its usefulness extend 

 far beyond the limits to which its contents relate. 



ALBERT GUNTHER. 



British Museum, 24 March, 1883. 



