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much uncertainty. The recent discovery of an even more remarkable 

 form in the deep seas of the North Atlantic has directed our attention 

 to the older known species, and by reason of the light reflected by the 

 newly-discovered one, we are enabled to interpret much that was am- 

 biguous and inexplicable in the descriptions of the old ichthyologists. 

 We here give an historical sketch of Saccopharynx and the fishes that 



have been referred to that genus. 



I. 



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