gudger: notes on books of unusual interest. 169 
old sense, it is full of the most interesting data. These data and 
the handsome plates executed in the old style give this work a 
perennial interest and value. 
Faber, George Louis: "The Fisheries of the Adriatic." London, 1883. 
The earliest and for a long time the only work dealing with the 
fisheries of this arm of the Mediterranean Sea. 
Francis, Francis (1822-1886): "Fish Culture." London, 1862. Fish 
culture in ponds has been. practised in England since the Dark Ages. 
All inland monasteries had fish ponds to provide fish for Fridays 
and fast days. During the 1800s, the art of fish culture was put 
on a scientific basis, and one of the pioneers in this work was Francis. 
Garlick, Theodatus: "Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Fish." 
New York and Cleveland, 1857. This work, a second edition of 
which was issued at Cleveland in 1880, is of interest because Garlick 
was one of the founders of pisciculture in the U. S. 
Herbert, David (Editor) : "Fish and Fisheries." London and Edinburgh, 
18S3. This work consists of a selection of the prize essays of the 
International Fisheries Exhibition at Edinburgh, 1882. 
Houghton, William (i829?-i897): "British Freshwater Fishes." 2 
volumes, London, 1879, folio. Written in an interesting style and 
beautifully illustrated with a colored figure of each fish, these 
volumes comprise one of the standard works to-day on the fresh- 
water fishes of Great Britain. 
Hughes, (Rev.) Griffith : "The Natural History of Barbados." London, 
1750, 29 pis., folio. An old-style work in which the ichthyologist 
finds described for the first time some of the West Indian fishes. 
Jardine, (Sir) William (1800-1874): "Naturalist's Library; Sections on 
Entomology, Ornithology, and Mammalia." Jardine was a Scottish 
naturalist who edited one of the first popular general natural histories, 
a work having a wide distribution and even to-day sought for by 
large libraries. 
Mayer, Alfred M. (Editor): "Sport with Gun and Rod in American 
Woods and Waters." New York, 1883. One of the best works 
of the kind ever brought forth. Of especial interest to the members 
of the Brooklyn Museum because Prof. Mayer's son, Dr. Alfred 
