A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES
Reading edition
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN President of Leland Stanford Junior University
With Colored Frontispieces and 427 Illustrations
IN TWO VOLUMES Vol I.
"I am the wiser in respect to all knowledge and the better qualified for all fortunes for knowing that there is a minnow in that brook."—Thoreau
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1905
Copyright, 1905 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Published March, 1905
To Theodore Gill, Ichthyologist, Philosopher, Critic, Master in Taxonomy, this volume is dedicated.