Theodore Gill
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 86
Get eBook
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.