Definitionn. the branch of zoology that studies fishes
Last update: July 2, 2015
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From this tour Ray and Willughby returned laden with collections, on which they meant to base complete systematic descriptions of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Willughby undertook the former part, but, dying in 1672, left only an ornithology and ichthyology, in themselves vast, for Ray to edit; while the latter used the botanical collections for the groundwork of his Methodus plantarum nova (1682), and his great Historia generalis plantarum (3 vols., 1686, 1688, _1704). [noun]
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Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology, but devoted much time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines, being superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines, Lake Superior, from 1866 to 1869, and afterwards, as a stockholder, acquiring a fortune, out of which he gave to Harvard, for the museum of comparative zoology and other purposes, some $500,000. [noun]
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And he certainly was not sought after by us, but came to me with an important question bearing on ichthyology. [noun]
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They spelled epiphany, gaberdine, ichthyology, gewgaw, kaleidoscope, and troubadour. [Please select]
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Ichthyology of Ceylon, little known Fish for table, seir fish Sardines, poisonous. [Please select]
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Unlike all other works treating of the birds and fishes, this one is written from the standpoint of the practical sportsman and angler, rather than for the student of ornithology or ichthyology. [Please select]
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ALBERT GÜNTHER, of the British Museum, for the communication of important facts in illustration of the ichthyology of Ceylon, as well as of the reptiles of the island. [Please select]
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