L U V A RUS 1M P E R I ALI 8. 



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This family includes the Mackerels, the Tunny s, the Bonitos 

 and the Remora. 



The skeleton of the fish has been mounted. It is not 

 perfect because of the cartilaginous condition of many of 

 the bones, as well as owing to an injury received in securing 

 the fish, but it is sufficiently perfect to serve the student's 

 purposes. The body of the fish could not be preserved, so a 

 cast was taken, under great difficulty, by Messrs. Grerrard, 

 and the result is the model in the Museum, in which the 

 external features of the fish are beautifully reproduced. 

 The original specimen was 4^ feet long, and was probably 

 full-grown, or nearly so. 



