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THE great Fisheries Exhibition held in London in 1883 gave a marked impulse to the study of our sea-fisheries, and drew the attention both of scientific men and of the more enlightened of the general public to the importance of the subject and to the necessity of endeavouring to “arrive at an accurate estimate of the causes which determine the movements and the variations in abundance of the animals which produce the harvest of the sea.” The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, founded shortly afterwards (1884), has done much during the last decade to trace out the life-histories and habits of many of our food fishes; the scientific investigations of the Fishery Board for Scotland, and the researches carried on at Prof. M’Intosh’s marine laboratory at St. Andrews, have done still more; and other public bodies and individuals round the coast have assisted in a less degree in collecting the information which has made possible such a book as the one before us.
The Natural History of the Marketable Marine Fishes of the British Islands.
By J. T. Cunningham Pp. xvi + 368, 2 maps, and numerous cuts. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896.)
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HERDMAN, W. The Natural History of the Marketable Marine Fishes of the British Islands. Nature 55, 361–362 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055361a0
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