Fishes: their Journeys and Migrations

Abstract

THIS book, as its mam theme, discusses the vital impulses dominating the periodic movements of certain species of fish. Throughout, the narrative is illustrative of the French aptitude for relating the incidence and play of the natural and external forces of Nature, whilst in harmony, at the same time, with imaginative conceptions and discriminative fancy. The depths of the sea and the waters of rivers include fish, for example, salmon, eels, shad, which form subjects for a story of events embodying descriptive skill and insight. Certain deep-sea fishes, the habits of which maintain adjustments to their environment, are considered, among these, cod, herring, mackerel, tunny. In a foreword Prof. Roule remarks that the migratory fish comes from the sea to the running water of the river under its own power; the migratory bird flies from one hemisphere to another, with only its wings to carry it.

Fishes: their Journeys and Migrations.

By Prof. Louis Roule. Translated from the French by Conrad Elphinstone. Pp. x + 270. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 12s. 6d. net.