Fauna Boreali Americana Or The Zoology Of The Northern Parts Of British America Vol 3

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330301883
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Fauna Boreali-Americana; Or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, Vol. 3 written by John Richardson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fauna Boreali-Americana; Or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, Vol. 3: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, Under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R. N.; The Fish Notwithstanding the high rank which our countryman Kay occupies in the annals of Natural History as a founder of systematic ichthyology, that branch of science has been greatly neglected in this country, - yet Britain owes much of her wealth to her fisheries; and her seamen, traversing the ocean in all directions, are familiar with the finny inhabitants of almost every river in the world, as well as with the wonders of the deep. While tire fish of the English seas were imperfectly known, it was not to be expected that those frequenting the waters of a remote colony would be more fully described; and, in fact, this volume of the Fauna owes comparatively little to the labours of previous writers in respect of the determination and description of species, though the arrangement and generic groups are adopted wholly from Cuvier. Forster, in the Philosophical Transactions of 1773, gives an account of four Hudson's Bay fish, three of which he erroneously identifies with European species; and he is the only ichthyologist that I have been able to cite respecting the fish which sport in the sea-like lakes and magnificent rivers of the portion of North America lying north of the St. Lawrence, and exceeding the whole of Europe in extent of territory. There is, I believe, no scientific account of the Canada fish, with the exception of M. Le Sueur's and Dr. Mitchill's descriptions of a few lacustrine species. Some of those inhabiting the seas of Newfoundland are included in the published volumes of the Histoire das Poissons, by Cuvier and Valenciennes. Fabricius's and the work last mentioned are my authorities for the Greenland fish, and I am indebted to the Appendices to the late Arctic Expeditions for those found on the northern shores of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.