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(i) D. JORDAN'S book on fishes, in two volumes, issued in 1904, was reviewed in NATURE soon after it appeared (vol. 72, p. 625, October 26, 1905). The present work, in one volume, does not call. for an extended notice, as it differs from the former one only in the omission of certain chapters or sections of chapters. Of the thirty-five chapters in the first volume of the 1904 edition, eighteen have been left out entirely, and parts of four others; but nearly the whole of the second volume is retained. The book has evi dently been reprinted from standing type and to describe it as a revised edition is misleading. There is one new paragraph (p. 184) inserted because the fitting together of parts of two chapters of the original book left a space that had to be filled; this paragraph refers to the recent discovery of a rudimentary sixth gill-arch in Heterodontus, and includes the statement that “the presence of five species in the Squalidae perhaps indicates affinity with Heterodontus”; here “five species” should obviously be “fin-spines.”
(1) Fishes.
By David Starr Jordan. Revised edition. Pp. xv + 773 + 18 plates. (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1925.) 30s. net.
(2) The Fishes of the British Isles, both Fresh Water and Salt.
By Dr. J. Travis Jenkins. (Wayside and Woodland Series.) Pp. vii + 376 + 143 plates. (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 12s. 6d. net.
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R., C. (1)Fishes(2)The Fishes of the British Isles, both Fresh Water and Salt. Nature 116, 603 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116603a0
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