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SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



NOTICES BY JOHN T. CARRINGTON. 



Natural History of the Marketable Marine Fishes oj 

 the British Islands. By J. T. Cunningham, M.A., 

 with a Preface by Professor E. Ray Lankester, 

 M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 375 pp. royal 8vo, illustrated 

 by 159 figures and 2 coloured maps. (London and 



New York : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1896.) 

 Price 7s. 6d. 



Although there are numerous " natural histories" 

 of British fishes, not one is quite like this most 

 useful work on our marine food fishes. It was 

 issued under the auspices of the Marine Biological 

 Association, as explained in the Preface by the 

 President of the Association, Professor Lankester, 

 the author being one of the scientific staff of the 

 institution. He has devoted much attention to the 

 life-histories of marine fishes, not only at the 

 Plymouth Laboratory but also in others at 

 Granton, Cleethorpes, and elsewhere. We 

 have not to read far into the pages of this 

 work before we find a natural history of far 

 more intelligent character and scientific nature 



Fig. 59 



Fig. 60. 



Fig. 61, 



Fig. 62. i 



Transformation of Flounder. 



(From Cunningham's " Marketable Marine Fishes.") 



Figs. 59-62, four stages in the transformation of the flounder. Fig. 59, the larva (j*^ inch 

 in length), two days after hatching, the yollf not yet all absorbed ; fig. 60, the same, six days 

 after hatching, the yolk all absorbed and the mouth open i^^^, inch in length) ; fig. 61, specimen 

 in a transition stage, with the left eye near the edge of^the head (length, ^^ inch) ; fig. 62, 

 specimen in which the transformation is nearly complete, the left eye on the edge of the 

 head (same length). 



