NOTES ON FISH AND FISHING. 



NOTE I. 



ICHTHYOLOGY. 



" Nature s great and wonderful power is more demonstrated in the 

 waters than on land." — Pliny. 



Classification of fish — Their structure — " Queer fish" — Hybrids — 

 Senses of fish: vision, hearing, smelling, tasting — Do fish sleep F — 

 Do fish feel pain? — Tenacity of life — Diseases of fish — Pood and 

 digestive powers — Change of colour in fish — Do fish talk P — Books 

 on ichthyology. 



Let me at the outset say that in these " Note3 " I shall 

 use the terms " Angler " and "Fisherman" as synony- 

 mous, though I am quite aware that the former is the 

 correct name to be applied to those who fish with hooks ; 

 dyKcov, "the elbow/' Latin Angulus, which originally 

 signified anything bent, being probably the origin of 

 the word, unless indeed we refer it to the German 

 Anken, to fix, pierce, or to the Dutch Kanghen, to 

 "hang." It is not, of course, necessary that an angler 

 be a Zoologist, or even an Ichthyologist, to enjoy his 

 pursuit; but the more he knows of and studies natural 

 history the greater the pleasure will he get out of his 

 angling excursions. Certainly he should know something 



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