Abstract
MORE than fifty years ago appeared "A Glossary of Greek Birds", which has been a treasure and a joy to two generations of scholars and naturalists. To the same learned and versatile writer, and the same ‘blameless drudgery of ‘lexicography, we owe now this companion volume, "A Glossary of Greek Fishes"—"a work of love and predilection all along". Doubtless with longer labour the "Glossary" might have been clothed in introduction and appendixes for the varied general problems and inquiries which it suggests ; but the author has done well to ensure the publication of what is, after all, the essential compendium of facts ; and some of the more difficult or more important items run to three or more pages, and the tunny has eleven.
A Glossary of Greek Fishes
By Sir D‘Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Pp. vi + 302. (London: Oxford University Press, 1947.) 21s. net.
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MYRES, J. A Glossary of Greek Fishes. Nature 161, 185–186 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161185a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161185a0