NOTES AND LITERATURE 



ZOOLOGY. 



"American Food and Game Fishes" 1 is the title of an admirable 

 volume of about 600 pages, written by Dr. D. S. Jordan, President of 

 Leland Stanford University and Dr. B. W. Evermann, Ichthyologist 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission. 



This book is the only attempt yet made to give an account of all 

 the species of American fishes north of Panama used by man as 

 food or sought by anglers for the sport which their capture affords. 

 About 1000 species of fish are described, nearly half of which are 

 illustrated by colored plates, half-tones and text figures. The text 

 figures are excellent reproductions from drawings which were origin- 

 ally used to illustrate the species in more technical papers, and are 

 as exact as it is possible to make them. The same is true of the 

 colored plates. The half-tones, of which there are more than 100, 

 are made from photographs of live fish in the water. They were 

 made expressly for this work at Key West, Lake Maxinkuckee, and 

 the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo. The artistic skill displayed 

 in making these photographs has certainly not been excelled in the 

 line of animal photography. The half-tone reproduction of these 

 photographs is seldom equalled. 



The fact that the book is written by two of our most active stu- 

 dents of American fishes is a guarantee of its excellence. The 

 important feature of the entire book is its accuracy. The descrip- 

 tions of the different species, their life histories and geographic 

 range are correctly as well as interestingly given. 



It is the only book that gives the commercial fisherman accurate 

 and detailed information about all American fishes which find their 

 way into our markets. As a literary and scientific production one 

 cannot praise this book too highly. It is certainly the work of 



