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least " in the library of ichthyology, is Scribner & Sons' 

 (New York) Game Fishes of the United States, containing 

 a series of most magnificent paintings of fishes and scenery, 

 with the text by Professor Browne Goode, of the United 

 States Museum. This is another of the livres de hixe, but 

 unfortunately beyond the means of slender purses. A 

 large number of the books on angling already referred to 

 in Chapters IV., V., and VI., contain ichthyological matter 

 of more or less interest. 



Works on PISCICULTURE are numerous, and many date 

 back to the Middle Ages, and even " classic " times. Some 

 have already been referred to in connection with what we 

 have called the " composite " books on angling ; and to 

 them may be added the Treatises of Boccius, published by 

 Van Voorst in 1841 and 1848; and several other transla- 

 tions of foreign authors. Our own older writers dilated a 

 good deal on fish-ponds, a subject to which before long 

 greater attention will probably be given in this country. 

 Roger North published his Discourse on Fish and FisJi-ponds 

 in 171 3, and it may still be studied with profit, a remark which 

 applies to W. Marshall's work on Management of Landed 

 Estates (Longman & Co., 1806), in which the 9th section 

 treats on " Improvement of Waters." Other comparatively 

 old works, such as Lebault's Maison Rnstique (mentioned 

 by I. Walton in " Fifth Day "), translated into English 

 in 1600; Ellis's Modern Hnsbandman (1750); Mordant's 

 Complete Steward (1761), in dictionary form ; Mortimer's 

 Whole Art of Husbandry (1707) ; Jacob's Country Gentle- 

 man's Vade-mecum (17 17); and Hale's Complete Body of 

 Husbandry (1758), all contain " Fish-pondian " information, 

 a great deal of which is applicable to " fish-farming " at the 

 present time. Among works on angling, several contain 

 piscicultural disquisitions, and especially Bowlker's Art of 

 Angling, referred to in Chapter V. Among more recent 



