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THIS work is to be issued in nine parts, of which the first, containing sixty-four pages of text and twenty-seven plates, is now published. Waiting until the completion of the work for a more extended notice, we may for the present mention that in it the author purposes to give a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of the British Isles, with remarks on their economic uses and on the various modes of their capture, and that an introduction to the study of fishes in general is promised.
The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland.
By Dr. Francis Day, &c. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1880.)
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The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland . Nature 23, 264 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023264a0
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