Brain and Body of Fish. A Study of Brain Pattern in Relation to Hunting and Feeding in Fish
1940; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; Volume: 1940; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1437999
ISSN1938-5110
AutoresDaniel Merriman, H. Muir Evans,
Tópico(s)Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
ResumoIn this short introduction to the comparative study of the brain of fish we have confined oiu* observations to bony fish.The reader will find no reference to the brain of the cartilaginous (elasmobranch)' fish.Our old fi'iend 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 liis trail.It is probably true that if investigations had been made on the goldfish or th& 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 owti, 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 WiUiam Bragg's Lectures on " The World of Sound " and to Dr. Beatty's " Hearing in
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