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This is a new edition of the above work, Mr. Buckland having found it necessary, he says, almost to re-write the book. It may be described as a free-and-easy gossip about fishes, the book being largely made up of extracts from all quarters, Land and Water especially being very fruitful in material. As might be expected, Chapter xv., treating of Salmonidæ, and occupying upwards of 100 pages, a fourth part of the volume, is the most original and valuable. The chapter will be found useful to all who take an interest in the rearing arid preservation of salmon. The numerous illustrations are very fairly executed, and the general reader will find the book entertaining and informing.
Familiar History of British Fishes.
By Frank Buckland, Inspector of Salmon Fisheries of England and Wales, Corresponding Member of the “Deutscher Fischerei Verein,” &c. &c. (London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 8, 261 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008261a0
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