Since one expects that the canonical projection f:X→X/G is a regular map of algebraic varieties and so has closed fibres, all orbits must be closed subsets in the Zariski topology of X.

The literature is poorly documented on the development of squamation in fishes other than teleosts except in the primitive actinopterygian fishes, the holosteans Lepisosteus and Amia.

Now, the stomach, to digest it well, will contain but about ten quarts, and when the animal eats one-third of his daily ration of seven pounds in one and one-half hours, he has swallowed at least two stomachsful of hay and saliva, one of these having passed to the intestine.

They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known […]