Excerpt from The Sporting Fish of Great Britain: With Notes on IchthyologyTo the author of Yarrell's British Fishes, as also to Mr. J. Van Voorst, the publisher of that excellent and exhaustive treatise, I gladly take this opportunity of acknowledging my many obligations.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.