 | Royal Commonwealth Society - Colonies - 1895 - 506 pages
...the water." Without doubt this was the general and popular view, as the universallyused expressions shell-fish, lobster and oyster fisheries, whale fisheries,...certain vague and antiquated sense of the word " fish " it may not be applied to the animals of which I propose to speak to you this evening ; but this must... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - Colonies - 1895 - 436 pages
...the water." Without doubt this was the general and popular view, as the universallyused expressions shell-fish, lobster and oyster fisheries, whale fisheries,...certain vague and antiquated sense of the word " fish " it may not be applied to the animals of which I propose to speak to you this evening ; but this must... | |
 | William Henry Flower - Anthropology - 1898 - 426 pages
...the water." Without doubt this was the general and popular view, as the universally used expressions shell-fish, lobster and oyster fisheries, whale fisheries,...to the animals of which I propose to speak to you this evening. This must not, however, cause us to forget that, tested by the light of modern scientific... | |
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... beginning of the present century, our greatest authority on the meaning of words, I find in Johnson's Dictionary (I now quote from Todd's edition, 1818) "fish " defined as " an animal that inhabits the water. 