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ander Agassiz; " The Fishes," by Garman, in the 

 Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 at Harvard College, vol. xxiv, a most valuable 

 and sumptuous series ; " The Fishes of North and 

 Middle America," exhaustive and valuable vol- 

 umes issued by the Smithsonian, representing a 

 part of the life work of David Starr Jordan and 

 Barton W. Evermann; "Oceanic Ichthyology," 

 a monument if any was needed to the splen- 

 did abilities of the late Dr. G. Brown Goode and 

 his colleague, Tarleton H. Bean ; Jordan and Gil- 

 bert's " Synopsis of the Fishes of North Amer- 

 ica " ; " The Aquatic Resources and Fisheries of 

 Porto Rico," by Barton W. Evermann ; " The 

 Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United 

 States," by Dr. G. Brown Goode, and many more ; 

 and to them, sportsmen and anglers always 

 naturalists in the broadest sense, lovers of nature 

 owe a lasting debt of gratitude for making 

 available technical information regarding the game 

 in which they are particularly interested. Then 

 comes the literature of the gentle art of angling 

 and the angler, the lover of fishes, dating from the 

 time of Athenaeus, Oppian, >Elian, Rondeletius, 

 Dubravius, Pliny, Plutarch, Aldrovandus, the im- 

 mortal Du Bartas, and many others, the memoirs 



