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ander Agassiz; “ The Fishes,” by Garman, in the 
Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy 
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 Athenzeus, Oppian, Zlian, Rondeletius, 
Dubravius, Pliny, Plutarch, Aldrovandus, the im- 
mortal Du Bartas, and many others, the memoirs 
