Allis, Edward Phelps

The present work on Scomber was begun in the laboratory of the author in 1892 by Dr. J. Dewitz and was continued with frequent interruptions until spring 1898. After that Mr. Jujiro Nomura continued this work.

Much of the larger part of the purely investigative work on which the present memoir is based was done in 1886 in connection with an other work of the author about the fish Amia calva. The author decided that he wanted to publish another work and the result is this publication.

The author describes that the general course and position of the lateral canals in fishes have long been known and their arrangements shown in numerous special works. The purely descriptive part has according to the author been neglected.