PISCES. 
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PISCES 
BY 
Albert Gunther, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. 
I'J I 
^ General Works. 
; Gunther, A. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. 
I London, 1870, 8vo, vol. viii. pp. 549. 
I This work is concluded with the present volume, which con- 
I tains the GymnotidcSj SymbranchidcBy MurcenideSj Pegasidce, 
Lophobranchiij Plectognathij Dipnoi, Ganoidei, Chondropterygii, 
I Cyclostomata, and Leptocardii. 
The advancement of ichthyology since the publication of the 
I first volume, in 1859, has been so rapid, and the additions made 
I to the British-Museum collection are so numerous, that it will 
\ he necessary to issue a supplementary volume, or to republish 
the earlier volumes of the work. 
Dumeril, a. Histoire naturelle des Poissons ou Ichthyologic 
generale. Tome II. Ganoi'des, Dipnes, Lophohranches. 
Paris, 1870, 8vo (pp. 624, with an Atlas in 8vo, containing 
12 plates). 
The scope and object of this work, of which the first volume 
appeared in 1865, has been described in Zool. Bee. ii. p. 163. 
; The author gives a detailed account of the literature and ana- 
tomy of the Ganoid and Dipnoous Fishes, chiefly from the 
works of preceding anatomists. The anatomy of the Lopho- 
, branchs is not further worked out ; and the Pegasidee are still 
I included in that order. In some of the groups, especially North- 
American genera, minute specific division is carried even beyond 
the point reached in recent publications of Blanchard and 
Guiclienot; and it will require much labour on the part of 
I coming ichthyologists to sift good species out of the mob of 
I names given to individual museum-specimens. Some portions 
I (as, for instance, part of the account of the Sturgeons) were 
I published by the author in previous years ; and other parts of 
1 the MS. (like that referring to the air-bladder of Ganoids) were 
. reprinted by him in some provincial periodicals, to which, there- 
fore, no further reference is required. 
1870. [vol. VII.] 
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