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Electric Fishes Scene described by Humboldt , 234 



Powers of Vitality and its connexion with Structure and Habits ... 234 

 Errors and Traditions Mackerel Midge -Eels Maigre Dory 



Remora 235 



Classification Table of Cuvier's Arrangement 237 



CARTILAGINOUS FISHES. 



ORDER CYCLOSTOMI LAMPREYS . 239 



The Lancelot Its Structure Carnivorous Habits 239 



ORDER PLAGIOSTOMI SHARKS AND KAYS 240 



Egg-bags of the Sharks and Rays . ... 240 



Native Dog-fishes Foreign Sharks 241 



Basking Shark Examples of Beneficent Design 242 



ORDER STURIONES STURGEONS 243 



Form of the Tail A "Royal Fish" Its great Size 243 



OSSEOUS FISHES. 

 ORDER PLECTOGNATHI GLOBE-FISHES 244 



ORDER LOPHOBRANCIUI PIPE-FISHES 214 



Hippocampus Marsupial Pouch of the Male Pipe-fish 244 



ORDER MALACOPTKKYGII APODES EELS 245 



Sand Eels Conger Eel 245 



Aesh -water Eels Susceptibility to Cold 246 



ORDER MALACOPTERYGII SUB-BRACHIALES 247 



Peculiarity of Structure in the Lump-Sucker 247 



The Plaice The Turbot 248 



The Cod Newfoundland Fishery 249 



OKDER MALACOPTERYGII ABDOMIXALES 249 



The Whitebait Sprat Pilchard Herring 250 



Migrations of the Herring Of the Pilchard 251. 



Salmonida:. The Family of the Salmon 252 



The Pollan of Lough N eagh Its Abundance 252 



