CONTENTS. 



NOTE I. 



ICHTHYOLOGY. 



PAGE 



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

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

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

 and digestive powers — Change of colour in fish — Do fish talk ? 

 — Books on ichthyology 1 



NOTE II. 



THE LITERATURE OE FISHING. 



Antiquity of angling literature — The " Book of St. Alban's," by 

 Dame Juliana Berners (or Barnes) — Authors before Izaak Wal- 

 ton — Walton's contemporaries — Walton — Critics of Walton — 

 Character of Walton — Proposed memorial to Walton — Other 

 contemporaries of Walton — Authors after Walton to end of 

 18th century — Authors from 1800 to present time — Poetical 

 literature of angling — Clergymen-authors on angling — General 

 character of angling literature — Catalogues of angling litera- 

 ture — Books on angling recommended — Angling cannot be 

 learnt from books— Want of an " Angler's Organ" . . .32 



