ONE HUNDRED FOREWORDS 



^JIHESE chapters wrote themselves in the intervals 

 -^ of diving, fishing, watching, naming, dissecting, 

 — the serious study of the fish of Bermuda . After two 

 seasons on Nonsuch they came to mind, and, except for 

 the first, were putdownhetweenJulyandOctoher,19Sl. 

 Colors, odors, sounds and sights; the island, sea, sky 

 and living creatures, all gloriously interexisting in the 

 three planes of our planet, and in the fourth dimen- 

 sion of enthusiastic human appreciation, — all this has 

 had to he entombed in black type upon flat paper. The 

 chapters abound with I, Me and My, in essence the 

 most impersonal of pronouns, standing solely for a 

 pair of eyes, together with a moving hand whose func- 

 tion is that of a needle on a phonograph record, to 

 record imperfectly what is so perfect before the direct- 

 ing brain begins to distort and depreciate. 



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