Excerpt from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society: Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Held at the Rooms of the Anglers' Association of Eastern Penn'a, Philadelphia, May 15th and 16th, 1889 The union of a large-scaled species with a small-scaled one produces a large-scaled cross in all the specimens which I have examined. As a rule, hybrids between members of distinct genera are sterile. 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.