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is published by W. Mackenzie & Co., of Ludgate Hill, 

 E.G., and Edinburgh and Dublin (1880), and it is diffi- 

 cult to imagine a work of the kind more splendidly illus- 

 trated, while the letterpress is all that can be desired. 

 The two grand volumes make a magnificent specimen of 

 a livre de luxe. The chapters on the " Salmonidae " are 

 of special interest and beauty. The Fishes of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, " including their economic uses and 

 various modes of capture, &c.," is another of the great 

 books of the age and " for all time/' Dr. Francis Day, 

 its author, is also well known for his work on the Fishes 

 of India, and other productions. He has won the highest 

 distinctions in connection with the Indian Section at the 

 Fisheries Exhibition, and other honours. Cassell's Natural 

 History, a grand work, which has long been in course of 

 publication, under the editorship of Dr. Duncan, is another 

 most valuable book of reference. Among less pretentious 

 volumes may be mentioned F. Buckland's History of British 

 Fishes, &c. (S.P.C.K.), and his Logbook of a Fisherman and 

 Zoologist ; Wood's Natural History ; Fishes, in Jardine's 

 " Naturalist's Library " ; Brown's Natural History of the 

 Salmon (1862) ; YenntlVs Angler-Naturalist ; The Autobio- 

 graphy of Salmo Salar, Esq., already referred to ; Badham's 

 Prose Halieutics ; the various works by H. P. Gosse ; 

 Rennie's Alphabet of Scientific Angling, though published 

 as long ago as 1836, and consequently somewhat anti- 

 quated in its curious ichthyological gossip ; and Reports 

 on the Natural History of Sahnonoids (Blackwood, 1867). 

 The various writings of Professors Darwin, 'tyndall, Owen, 

 and Huxley, contain a variety of ichthyological informa- 

 tion, and the monograph on the Crayfish, by the last 

 named, is a veritable marvel of exhaustive treatment. The 

 last work we shall mention here, but by no means " the 



