32 THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



man, before he has advanced many pages farther ; inasmuch as, 

 thanks especially to the assistance of my good friend Professor 

 Agassiz, and other correspondents, I believe I shall have the 

 pleasure of laying before him something that is not only new, 

 but curious and highly interesting, concerning the growth, the 

 breeding, and the varieties, several of them hitherto undescribed, 

 of the family of Salmon {Salmonida) of North America, to the 

 consideration of which I come without farther delay. 



