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scientific considerations, a peculiarly important place 

 must be assigned to this remarkable book in descrip- 

 tive natural history. Its final value will be lasting, 

 if not great; its authority recognized rather than 

 contemned ; its pioneer nomenclature and inadequacy 

 allowed their full modicum of influence in tempering 

 our judgment of its importance in ichthyologic bibli- 

 ography. It is a book redolent of the sweetness of 

 Nature, rather than of the dust of libraries. 



