Bibliography of the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the United States to the End of 1879

Résumé du livre

The scientific literature relative to the fishes of the western coast of North America is of unusually recent, as well as rapid, growth. Nothing exact was known till the present century had far advanced, for the accounts of the earlier writers, such as Venegas, instead of enlightening the reader, convey absolutely false ideas respecting the character of the ichthyic fauna.