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Excerpt from Arrangement of the Families of Fishes, or Classes Pisces, Marsipobranchii, and Leptocardii: Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution At a future time the views of the author respecting the principles of classification and their application to the fishes will be published in detail. 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.