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sea fishing, reference may be made to that portion of the 

 Bibliotheca Piscatoria devoted to " Fisheries " pubHcations. 

 Legal works of vakie connected with our fisheries, which 

 will be found most useful, are Oke's Handbook of Game 

 and Fishery Laivs (Butterworth's, 1878), edited by J. W. 

 W. Bund ; Mr. Bund's own book on TJie Laiv relating to 

 the Salmon Fisheries., &c. ; Mr. Baker's Laivs relating to 

 Salmon Fisheries, &c. (though the last edition was in 

 1868), and Mr. Archibald Young's books above-mentioned. 

 For an exhaustive list of Acts of Parliament relating to 

 our fisheries, from the time of Edward I. (1270), down to 

 the present, and Parliamentary Papers, reference can be 

 made to the Bibliotheca Piscatoria, in which the enumera- 

 tion of both together fill up no less than fifty pages. 



The mention of works on ICHTHYOLOGY at once sug- 

 gests the names of the great French naturalists Buffon and 

 Cuvier. The Animal Kingdom of the latter, and Natural 

 History of the former, must ever remain standard works 

 of their kind, notwithstanding fresh discoveries in zoology. 

 Among our own country the name of Yarrell stands out 

 conspicuously, his History of British Fishes being a master 

 work (Van Voorst), and his Groivth of the Salmon in Fresh 

 Water another. Mr. Van Voorst also publishes a most 

 interesting book, though not in the class we are now 

 mentioning, entitled Heraldry of Fish, by Thomas Moule. 

 Couch's History of the Fishes of the British Isles (Bell & 

 Co.) is too well known to need more than mention here. 

 His Treatise on the Pilchard is also well worth study, both 

 as a work on ichthyology, and as bearing on the pilchard 

 fisheries of Cornwall. Another standard work is the 

 Introduction to the Study of Fishes, by Dr. C. L. B. Giinther, 

 of the British Museum (A. & C. Black. Edinburgh, 1880). 

 British Fresh Water Fishes, by the Rev. W. Houghton, 



