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the whole length in both fishes, the organization 

 must be different, where double the number is 

 contained in the same length. 



At the time I sent the account of Ziphotheca 

 tetradens to the Wernerian Society, Ichthyologk 

 de Nice was not published, from which it appears 

 Risso had only seen one specimen of his Lepidopus 

 Peronii. 



Dr Shaw^ speaks of his fish having been taken 

 in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Seas, though 

 rarely, and that it had occurred near Lisbon* 



Leptocephalus MorrisiL 



Plate xxii. fig. 1. 



It appears extraordinary, that, after the descrip- 

 tion and figure given of this curious fish by Mr 

 Pennant, who personally examined it, and from 

 Ivhich a drawing was taken, there should still ex- 

 ist a degree of scepticism amongst the scientific, 

 concerning the actual existence of such an animal. 

 The editor of the late edition of the British 

 Zoology, wishing to rernove all doubts concerning 

 it,' and justly bestow all the deserved credit on so 

 able a naturalist, to whom the world, and in par- 

 ticular his native country, is under so much obli- 

 gation, has collected together several other in- 

 stances of this fish having been taken on the coast 

 of Wales. Here we find a letter from the Rever- 



