ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with the study of fishes.
ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with the study of fishes.
the branch of zoology that deals with the study of fishes?
ichthyology
vertebrate zoology









































vertebrate zoology is the biological discipline that consists of the study of vertebrate animals, i.e., animals with a backbone, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. the university of california, berkeley has a vertebrate zoology section where a research was done.









































section::::subdivisions.









































this subdivision of zoology has many further subdivisions, including:









































bullet::::- ichthyology - the study of fishes.









































bullet::::- mammalogy - the study of mammals.









































bullet::::- ornithology - the study of birds.









































bullet::::- herpetology - the study of reptiles.









































bullet::::- batrachology - the study of amphibians.









































these divisions are sometimes further divided into more specific specialties.
vertebrate zoology
in 1892 alcock resigned (having attained the rank of major) and became deputy sanitary commissioner for eastern bengal. in 1893 wood-mason went home and alcock agreed to act for him during his absence. wood-mason died on his way to england and alcock was appointed as the superintendent of the indian museum. in 1895-96 he was on the pamis boundary commission and wrote the natural history results of this expedition. at the indian museum, alcock worked on improving the public galleries of reptiles, fishes and invertebrates. sir george king who was the chairman of the trustees supported him, however after his retirement, alcock was given little support. lord curzon decided to exhibit the collections of the indian museum as a memorial to queen victoria in 1903 and alcock was ordered to "vacate the gallery of fishes at a moment's notice." alcock protested to the trustees that "it would be disgraceful to dismantle a gallery of invertebrates which included an exhibit of the recent mosquito-malaria discoveries, at a moment when those discoveries seemed at last to have driven into the thickest british skull the great truth that the study of zoology was of some use to mankind." the gallery was spared but the library was to be cleared. these experiences caused alcock to quit and he returned home in 1906 writing to the government "telling him what an impossible post the superintendentship of the museum was and begging him to get it improved for the sake of the science of zoology and of my successors." in the letter alcock wrote that zoology was "a branch of pure science pregnant with human interest", important to the state "in matters of education, in matters agricultural and veterinary, and in the vital matter of public health." he suggested the establishment of "an indian zoological survey" with a museum and laboratory administered by zoologists along the lines of the geological and botanical surveys.
alfred william alcock