THE MICROSCOPE, 



NIAY, 1894. 



Number 17. 



New Series. 



Objects Seen Under the Microscope. 

 The Smelt (Osmerus mordax.) 



By LAWRENCE E. GRIFFIN & EDITH MONTGOMERY. 



Biolog-ical students iu Hamlitie Universit}-. 



The Smelt is a salt-water fish, of the family Salmon- 

 idae, found along the Atlantic shores of the United Sates. 

 Its length is from six to nine inches. The body is nearly 



round in cross-section and quite slender. It is dark on 

 the dorsal side, shading into silvery white on the ven- 

 tral. Extending from just back of the eye to the root of 

 the caudal fin, along each side of the body, is the metal- 



