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MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[FIFTH SERIES.] 



" perlitora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et oirciim vitreos considite fontes: 

 Polliee virgineo teueros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum. divas, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphee Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 It', reeurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui eonchylia succo." 



N. Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 37. JANUARY 1881. 



I. — SpoUa Atla7itica : Contributions to the Knowledge of 

 the Changes of Form in Fishes during their Growth and 

 Development^ especially in the Pelagic Fishes of the At- 

 lantic. By Dr. C. F. LiiTKEN*. 



I. 



In this memoir I furnish a series of contributions to the know- 

 ledge of the ichthyological fauna of the high seas, principally 

 of the Atlantic, as also to that of the hemimetaraorphoses 

 of various sea-fishes, and especially of the pelagic fishes. The 

 changes of form and of other characters which many fishes 

 present during their growth and development are still but 

 little known, and have never been described in a connected 

 manner, although in many cases they are so great and so 

 strongly marked that they have given rise to the establish- 

 ment of a considerable number of species and genera, which, 

 as a matter of course, will disappear from the system so soon 

 as their true relationships have been recognized. This me- 

 moir is, at the same time, to be regarded as an attempt on 

 the part of the author to employ scientifically a portion of the 

 abundant materials, consisting of small fishes and young 



* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from a copy sent by the author 

 of the French summary of Dr. Liitken's memoir, read before the Academy 

 of Sciences of Copenhagen. 



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