Brain and Body of Fish

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Excerpt from Brain and Body of Fish: A Study of Brain Pattern in Relation to Hunting and Feeding in FishIN this short introduction to the comparative study of the brain of fish we have confined our observations to bony fish. The reader will find no reference to the brain of the cartilaginous (elasmobranch) fish. Our old friend the dog-fish will not appear. This unpleasant animal may be the cause of the backward state of our interest in the neurology of fish. Fifty years ago Ray Lankester was making pioneer observations on the brain of the dog-fish, but there seem to have been few scientists who have followed his trail. It is probably true that if investigations had been made on the goldfish or the roach the interest in these attractive fish would have led to a. Wider knowledge of the brain structure of fish. This book is a. Study of the brain of our familiar fresh-water fish, and the common food fishes of the British Isles. Salmon and trout, having a, publication of their own, do not appear. All the figures I reproduce are from my own specimens and drawings With the exception of two text figures of the brains of the cod and mormyrus for permission to redraw these I have to thank the Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In the discussion on the Silence of the Sea, I have referred to passages in Sir William Bragg's Lectures on The World of Sound and to Dr. Beatty's Hearing in Man and Animals. I have also consulted Cunningham on this subject in the work Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes edited by him. References to other authors are mentioned in the text. A large proportion of the observations described in this work have already appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, but the text has been entirely re-written With a considerable amount of new material.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.