
REVIEWS. 329 


Again (p. 41) he gives us an entirely new scientific classification of the 
fishes as follows : First, Mammalia!!!! Second, the genus ue Third, 
all other oviparous fishes. 
Again (p. 353), ** Spallanzani proses the possibility of impregnating the 
eggs of fishes artificially. He took the eggs of a frog and impregnated 
them with the semen of a male frog." Surely all is fish which comes to 
Mr. Scott's net, Mammals and Batrachians included. 
ection on Fish Culture, occupying sixty-two pages, is valuable 


vel d. be thankfully received, but English preferred) which will give 
full and accurate directions for the artificial propagation of fishes. Coste, 
Haxo, Shaw, Boccius, Francis, Pred, Garlick, Fry, and even Norris, 
leave much to b e desired. 
Of the pictorial embellishments a great deal may be said on both sides. 
The grotesque initial letters are capital, the figures of fishes, taken for 
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under the cut a very important appendage. The fishing scenes are decid- 
edly below par. On page 391 is a cut which has been going the rounds of 
the E ques for the past year, and which we had hoped wei ere 
rn out. It has es es successi vely in “ Harper’s Weekly” 
- “Monthy,” cues American,” and ‘Phrenological Maga ae It 
represents a poor martyr trout in mens hands of an unskilful manipulator, 
Who holds her in such an outre manner, and squeezes her so tightly, that 
the eggs are forced out at the wrong way. AV view of a much more humane 
and profitable vpn of punti trout may be seen on the frontispiece 
of * Francis’ Fish Cul 
- À statement like er v the capture of Turbot on the coast of New 
_ Brunswick (p. 432), must taken with fall allowance as to what is in- 
. tended by the name of Tur 
: But with these aes and as far as is promised, the book is the 
. best that has yet been issued. To give erue s for fishing in Ameri- 
an waters is what is promised in the title, and this is faithfully carried 
.9Ut, and to use a new and strikingly original sida no library of works 
9n Angling can be penes without it. — TRUTT. 





Tur Mississippr V — “It was with a view,” the author gentia — 
od preface, “of ene ed the grada dem between the forest, p: i a : 
and des, vasi the varying conditions of temperature un rascal 
| and M "Wealth. 
RU. Gomes & Ga. 1869, 
