DEDICATION. 
This little book on the fishes of America, ts dedicated to 
my Brother-Ichthyologists in other lands 
Dr. NICHOLAS APOSTOLIDES, of Athens ; 
Dr. ROBERT COLLETT, of Christiania ; 
Dr. FRANCIS DAY, of Cheltenham, England; 
Pror. ENRICO H. GIGLIOLI, of Florence ; 
Dr. ALBERT C. L. G. GUNTHER, of the British Museum; 
Dr. JAMES HECTOR. of New Zealand ; 
Pror. A. A. HUBRECHT, of Utrecht ; 
Dr. FRANZ M. HILGENDORF, of Berlin; 
Messrs. K. ITO, and S. MATSUBARA, of Japan; 
Dr. CHRISTIAN LUTKEN, of Copenhagen ; 
Dr. ANDRE-JEAN MALMGREN, of Helsingfors ; 
Pror. PIETRO PAVESI, of Pavia; 
Dr. EMILE SAUVAGE, of Paris ; 
Pror. F. A. SMITT, of Stockholm ; 
Don FELIPE POEY, of Havana ; 
Dr. FRANZ STEINDACHNER, of Vienna; 
Dr. DECIO VINCIGUERRA, of Rome; 
Pror. OSCAR von GRIMM, of St. Petersburg— 
in memory of much pleasant intercourse in the past, especially 
during the recent Fisheries Exhibitions in Berlin and Lon- 
don, and with the hope that its publication may lead to a 
wider popular appreciation, in America, of the importance 
and interest of Ichthyological Science. 
