PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 



WHEN I published the first edition of this work, less than two years 

 ago, little did I think the publishers would call upon me to issue a 

 second within so short a period. It is most gratifying, indeed, to me 

 to know that my endeavours to give reliable information about the 

 " Life- History of the Salmon' have been so well received. The 

 press notices and the private letters I have received from all parts of 

 the world have greatly cheered and encouraged me in this work, and 

 I take this opportunity of thanking all for their favourable comments. 

 During last year I devoted what spare time I had to the study of 

 scales from fish which had returned a second time from the sea, the 

 results of which are embodied in this edition. 

 There are thirty-five new illustrations added. 



P. D. MALLOCH. 



PERTH, January 1912. 



