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pharyngeal beds of other fishes, rather than to have an analogy 
with such as are set in the jaws of other families. A further 
declension from the type of fishes, with a still more decided 
approach to the annelid form, will be discerned in those 
groups that will follow the Lampreys, and which will close 
our history of the fishes that have been hitherto found in the 
liritish Islands, with the exception of a short supplement of 
such as have been discovered later than the publication of the 
regular order to which they belong. 
