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1909, Mr. Retail discusses in detail the family of Anabant id;e. 



In the Archives de Zoologie Exp/ rim/ ntah . fifth series, volume 

 1 (1909), Dr. Louis Fage discusses in great detail the variations 

 in the red surmullet of Europe. He finds that Mull us surmu- 

 letus is a form of Mullus barbatus somewhat less developed, so 

 that the two species can not be maintained as distinct, If one 

 is to give the right value to the variants of the surmullet, it is 

 necessary to have not only a trinomial but a quadrinomial system 

 of naming. 



In the Bulletin di la Societe PhUomathique, 1909, Dr. Jacques 

 Pellegrin discusses the minute cattish of the genus YandclUa. 



In the Proceedings of the Seventh International Zoological 

 Congress, Mr. Regan discusses the origin of the Chimaeroid fishes. 

 He regards them as derived from tin sam si 1 is the sharks, 

 but more primitive. 



In the said 1'roc/ / diu/js, Mr. Regan discusses very fully the 

 classification of the Teleostean fishes. It will be a long time 

 before any satisfactory grouping of these animals can be made, 

 but every analysis of this sort shows the importance of the prob- 

 lem, and the soundness of the American view, that a complete 

 analysis of these forms must be made before any satisfactory 

 synthesis is possible. To place groups together simply because 

 we don't know how to separate them, does not form a classifica- 

 tion of any permanence. A new order. Malacichthyes, is made 

 for the genus Icost/us, and another order. Chondrobrachii. for 

 Podateles. On the whole, this classification shows several points 

 of advancement over any previously proposed, but there is 

 plenty of room for doubt in regard to many of the adjustments. 



In the "Scientific Investigations of the Fishes of Ireland," 

 Volume 4, E. W. L. Holt and L. W. Byrne discuss the Chimceras 

 of the Irish coast. These are three in number, C. monstrosa, 

 C. affinis and C. mirabilis. C. plumbea and C. abbreviata are 

 identical with C. affinis. A new species of lihinochimara, P. 

 alluntica, is described. Of this genus, only a single Japanese 

 species is hitherto known. 



In the Quarter];) Journal of Microscopical Scimce, volume 54 

 (1910), Professor A. (iraham Kerr describes the development of 

 the alimentary canal in L< pidosin u and Protopterus. 



In the Publications of the Department of State, the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Commission (David Starr Jordan and Edward 

 Ernest Prince; have published the regulations, sixty-six in num- 



