B. TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY. 65 



when the apostles said, "A fire of coals burning, and fish 

 laid thereon." In conformity with such ideas, Dr. Gunther 

 named the species Ilemickromis sacra and Chromis andrew 

 and Chromis simonis. The fourth is one with which the 

 Jews must have been familiar before leaving Egypt, for it 

 is the common perch of that country Chromis nilotica. 

 The fish from whose mouth Peter took a piece of money is 

 said by mediaeval writers to be the haddock, and the black 

 spots behind the axillae are asserted to be the marks of the 

 toil-stained finger and thumb of Peter, miraculously pre- 

 served. As the haddock is a marine fish of the North At- 

 lantic, and does not occur in fresh water, we are not sur- 

 prised at not finding it in Dr. Gunther's list. 



The fishes of Lake Utah have been collected by the nat- 

 uralists of Lieutenant Wheeler's United States Survey, and 

 number thirteen species. The number will, no doubt, be 

 increased on fuller investigation. They are not nearly so 

 varied in type as those of the Lake of Galilee, representing 

 only four families. Three of these do not exist in the Pal- 

 estine waters ; but the fourth, the chub and minnow family 

 {Cyprinidce), is most largely represented in both. The oth- 

 ers are of the sucker, whitefish, and salmon families, there 

 being no perch, cat-fish, nor eels. There is but a single 

 species of trout and whitefish each ; but these go far to- 

 ward supplying the economic deficiencies. The whitefish 

 {Coregonus williamsonii) is a delightful table fish, and the 

 most southern species of its family ; while the trout {Salmo 

 virginalis) is equally agreeable as food, and reaches a larger 

 size. It has black spots on a silver ground, and a broad red 

 band along the side, with red belly, red bars on the chin, 

 red muzzle, etc. In the streams of the adjacent mountains a 

 stouter species is found, the Salmo pleuriticus, which is sim- 

 ilar in general color, but different in form, while the same 

 crimson lateral band is seen in a sucker (Catostomus discobo- 

 lus) which inhabits the tributaries of the Colorado River. 



THE EARTHQUAKE OF BELLUNO. 



The Royal Institute of Science in Venice, immediately 

 after the news of the fearful earthquake that occurred on 

 the 29th of June, 18*73, in the province of Belluno, appoint- 

 ed a commission to make a thorough study of this subject. 



