Excerpt from Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 5: The Freshwater Fishes of British Guiana, Including a Study of the Ecological Grouping of Species, and the Relation of the Fauna of the Plateau to That of the LowlandsThe following pages, constituting the Fifth Volume Of the Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, embody the results of the investigations made by Dr. C. H. Eigenmann upon the piscine fauna of the rivers of British Guiana.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.