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On the 27th of April (ninety-eight days after deposition) they were 

 excluded from the egg. Specimens were exhibited of thirty days old, 

 taken on the 26th of May, measuring nearly an inch in length, and 

 the ovum still adherent. On the 27th of June, at two months old, 

 the fry measured an inch and a half in length ; and on the 27th of 

 October, at six months old, a specimen exhibited measured about 

 x four inches in length. The temperature of the pond and of the air 

 was noted at the periods of examination. Another experiment in a 

 different pond afforded analogous results. Mr. Shaw is of opinion, 

 from what he has observed in these and former experiments, that the 

 young salmon remains in its native stream for two years after being 

 hatched ; and that the Parr, or what is termed the Parr in his neigh- 

 bourhood, is the young of the salmon. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Extract from an Address on the Fourth Anniversary, January 22nd, 

 1-828. By James Francis Stephens, F.L.S., President. 



" With regard to our Collection of Insects, it is with unusual satis- 

 faction I announce that, from the prosperous state of our finances, 

 as you have heard from the report of our worthy Treasurer — (ap- 

 pended at the end) — we shall be enabled to command the services of 

 a paid assistant to those gentlemen who have so kindly and so libe- 

 rally undertaken gratuitously to superintend its arrangement ; and 

 as we are now in possession of several excellent cabinets, I hope be- 

 fore the recurrence of another anniversary, the entire collection will 

 be so far arranged as to be available to the student ; for I speak ad- 

 visedly when I add, that several individuals have hitherto declined 

 joining our Society, and one has actually tendered his resignation, in 

 consequence of our collection, extensive though it is, remaining in 

 an unarranged condition. I need not, therefore, impress upon our 

 valuable curators the boon they will confer upon the Society, by ex- 

 pediting as much as in their power the labours they have so hand- 

 somely undertaken to perform ; though at the same time, knowing 

 the various difficulties they have to encounter, we cannot expect 

 their progress will be very rapid, from the very limited time they 

 can afford to devote to the subject ; at all events, I feel that the 

 thanks of the Society are justly due to them for the exertions they 

 have already made in furtherance of the task voluntarily imposed 

 upon themselves, and, let us hope, that they will merit a reiteration 

 of the same from their increased exertions on our behalf during the 

 present year. 



" The design and objects of this Society have already been re- 



