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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. I.—JULY, 1867.—No. 5. 
So 
THE SEA-HORSE AND ITS YOUNG. 
BY REV. SAMUEL LOCKWOOD. 
“Sir,” said an aged fisherman, “there is nothing on the 
Land that is not in the Sea!” The old waterman’s terse- 
ness forestalled the ed: 
philosophic dictum of 
the poet,—* Whether 
we live by the sea- 
side, or by the lakes 
and rivers, it concerns 
us to attend to the 
nature of fishes, since 
they are not phenom- 
universally dispersed.” sce gore pee is a re- 
markable Order, called by systematists the Lophobranchs, 
Which stand apart from the others by two well-defined, 
and very curious distinctions. They differ from other 
a in the peculiar structure of the gill arches, by 
tofe in the year 1867, 2 by the ESSEX INSTITUTE, in the 
ONLTeESS. asetti, 
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