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Electric Fishes — Scene described by Humboldt 218 



Powers of Vitality and its connexion with Structure and Habits ... 218 

 Errors and Traditions — JIackerel ]\Ii(lge — Eels — Maigre — Dory — 



I?emora 219 



Classilication — Table of Cuvier's Arrangement 221 



CARTILAGINOUS FISHES. 



Order Cyclostosii — La:«prets 223 



The Lancelet — Its Structure — Carnivorous Habits 223 



Order PLAGiosTom — Sharks and Rays 224 



Egg-bags of the Sharks and Rays 224 



Native Dog-fishes — Foreign Sharks 225 



Basking Shark — Examples of Beneficent Design 226 



Order Stukiones — Sturgeons 227 



Form of the Tail— A " Royal Fish "—Its great Size 227 



OSSEOUS FISHES. 

 Order Plectoonathi — Globe-fishes 228 



Order Lophobranchii — Pipe-Fishes 228 



Hippocampus — Marsupial Pouch of the Male Pipe-fish 228 



Order Mai.acoptertgii Apodes — Eels 229 



Sand Eels— Conger Eel 229 



Fresh-water Eels— Susceptibility to Cold 230 



Order Malaoopterygii Sub-Brachiales 231 



Peculiarity of Structure in the Lump-Sucker 231 



The Plaice— The Turbot 232 



The Cod — Newfoundland Fishery 233 



Order Malacopterygii .Vrdominales 233 



Tlie Whitebait — Sprat — Pilchard — Herring 233 



Migrations of the Herring — Of the Pilchard 234 



Sahnuniila:. — The Family of the Salmon 236 



The Pollan of Lough Neagh — Its Abundance 236 



