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DR. BASHFORD DEAN is known to zoologists, first, as the author of exhaustive and critical articles in the publications of the United States Fish Commission, on the systems of oyster culture pursued in Europe, and, secondly, as an embryologist who has lately been doing good work on the development of various Ganoid fishes and the comparison that may be instituted with Teleostei. His recent addition to the well-known “Columbia University Biological Series,” now being brought out by Macmillan and Co., under the editorship of Prof. H. F. Osborn, is an interesting volume upon fishes, in which considerable prominence is given to the fossil forms, and the whole subject is presented to us from the point of view of the evolutionist. This is the characteristic feature of the book. From the very first page of the introduction to the last page in the volume, preceding the index, which is a table of the supposed descent of the groups of fishes, the book is full of the spirit and the language of evolution.
Fishes, Living and Fossil: an Outline of their Forms and Probable Relationships.
By Bashford Dean Pp. xiv + 300. (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1895.)
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H., W. Fishes, Living and Fossil: an Outline of their Forms and Probable Relationships. Nature 53, 485 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053485a0
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