NOTICE. 



It must be here stated, that much of this work now offered to the Public was 

 printed several years since: indeed twg numbers were published under another title in 

 1845: some few pages have been reprinted, and new matter added. So much it is 

 necessary to say, to account for the apparent negligence in not referring to late works 

 on Ichthyology. 



Notwithstanding the great delay in the publication of this work, it is now so far 

 advanced that it will he printed in a year or eighteen months. In a succeeding num- 

 ber will he given some account of the anatomy of Fishes, and of the terms made use 

 of in description. 



THE AUTHOR. 



Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 



November Wth, 1854. 



