THE 



CALCUTTA JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles.* Par Louis Agassiz, 

 Professeur (THistoire Naturelle a NeuchateL Neucha- 

 tel, (Suisse,) 1833. 



The work of M. Agassiz, from the admirable execution of 

 the descriptionsj as well as of the plates, together with the 

 important aid which it affords in geological pursuits, is ge- 

 nerally regarded in Europe as a worthy continuation of 

 Cuvier's Researches on Fossil Bones, chiefly of the higher 

 classes of vertebrate animals. The plates are numerous, and 

 afford detailed and satisfactory drawings of from six to 

 eight hundred fossil species, and have been executed by two 



* Containing an introduction to the study of these animals, the 

 comparative anatomy of the organs which contribute to a determi- 

 nation of fossil species, a new classification of fishes expressing their 

 connection with the series of formations, an exposition of the laws 

 of their succession and development during all the metamorphoses of 

 the terrestrial globe, accompanied with general geological considera- 

 tions ; finally, descriptions of above eight hundred species, most of whose 

 characters and forms we have re-established from the fragments con- 

 tained in the strata of the earth. 



VOL. III. NO. XI. OCTOBER 1842. 2 S 



