Art. VI.] Herkick, Taste in Fishes. 9I 



tapeoLis nerve supply on the fins of these fishes is greatly in ex- 

 cess of the communis nerve supply. 



I noticed also that all of the fishes that ate' freely in 

 captivity soon accustomed themselves to novel methods of feed- 

 ing and in the case of the cat fishes and the hake especially, as 

 soon as I approached their tanks after the experiments had 

 been in progress some time, the fishes would rise to the top of 

 the tank and eagerly await the expected food. This restless- 

 ness became so great with the cat fish that the experiments be- 

 came increasingly more difficult and there was evidence that 

 vision and possibly smell assumed greater importance after this 

 expectation of food had made its appearance. 



Denison University, 

 Dec. /J, igo2. 



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