250 Mr Ramage on ike Excavations made at Pmnpeii. 



Examination of the Buttery Substance found in the narroxo- 

 necked Fa^^.— This substance is much softer than the prece- 

 ding : it has a yellowish-green colour, has a strong rancid smell, 

 and exhibits in the mass a number of brown globules, similar to 

 the spawn of fish, but which cannot be made out even by a power- 

 ful lens. This substance resembles that found with the olives : 

 it is composed of the same principles, though it may contain a 

 larger quantity of oleic acid, and of that unknown substance 

 analogous to the sweet principle of fixed oils. It appears, in- 

 deed, to have been nothing else but the oil of olives, containing 

 some vegetable salt. 



Sketch of the Natural History of the Salmo Salar, or Com- 

 mon Salmon. 1. Of the Process of Spawning, and sub- 

 sequent evolution of the ova ; 2. Of the growth and move- 

 merits of the Young Brood, to and from the sea during the 

 first year of life ; and, 3. Of the migrations of the Salmon 

 betwixt the River and the Sea. By Daniel Ellis, Esq. 

 F.R.S.E., &c.* 



!^INCE the year 1824, a Committee of the House of Com- 

 mons has been employed, during several sessions, in making in- 

 quiries into the present state of the salmon fisheries through the 

 United Kingdom. The Committee, in a great degree, origina- 

 ted from numerous petitions presented to the House from Scot- 

 land. To gain the necessary information, they, in the first place, 

 prepared and distributed certain queries regai;ding the present 

 state of the fisheries in the several rivers, estuaries, and adjacent 

 seas ; the laws, usages, or regulations acted on, or applicable to 

 these fisheries ; the extent to which the law is or can be enforced, 

 and the customs and practices which oppose or counteract it ; 

 the modes of salmon-fishing now in use ; and the actual day on 

 which it commences and ceases in each fishery ; at what periods 

 of the year it ought to commence and cease, so as to obtain the 

 greatest supply of good salmon, and preserve most effectually 

 the breed ; whether these periods should be the same for all 



• Drawn up from the evidence contained in two Reports of a " Select Com- 

 mittee of the House of Commons, on the Salmon Fisheries of the United King- 

 dom." Ordered by the House to be printed in 1824 and 1825. 



