The Bakerian Lecture - On the structure and development of the skull of the salmon ( Salmo salar , L.)

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1872
• Subjects: Waterhouse; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1871.0069; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1871.0069

A few years ago Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins put into my hands some newly hatched salmon and also three of the first summer. Seeing their fitness for embryological research and the interest attaching to the formation of an osseous fish, I applied to my friends Messrs. Frank Buckland and Henry Lee, and these gentlemen most liberally supplied me with a large number of unhatched embryos and of the “fry” of this large fish. My last subject, the frog, being fairly out of hand, I set myself last summer to this newer and more easy task, —more easy by far, for the translucency of the young salmon contrasts most favourably with the obscurity of the embryo frog.