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remarkable for the close and numerous spottings over the whole 

 body; 5. are two beautiful lacustrine varieties of S.fario, and 6. 

 exhibits figures of the Lochmaben Coregonus, C. Willughbeii, Jard. 

 The second fasciculus, which is in preparation, will contain, 1. S.sa- 

 lar, adult male in the dress of the spawning season ; 2. S. salar in 

 a very young state ; Z. S. trutta, adult ; 4. S. trutta in the dress 

 of spawning season ; 5. S.fario river varieties ; and 6. S.fario in 

 the spawning dress. 



The work of Mr. Yarrell forms another interesting addition to our 

 knowledge of the Natural History of the Salmon. The young of the 

 Salmon (in the district where the experiments were made called 

 Pinks) were put into an artificial lake on the property of Thomas 

 Upton, Esq. of Ingraire Hall, having no outlet or feeder by which 

 other fish could gain admittance. These were afterwards taken at 

 intervals of from eleven to twenty-seven months, and Mr. Yarrell's 

 description and plates detail and exhibit the changes and appearance 

 of the fish when taken from the lake. The experiments of Mr. Up- 

 ton and Mr. Parker corroborate in general what Mr. Shaw has so 

 successfully proved in Scotland, and are interesting as showing 

 the change in colouring undergone by the Pinks at the period when 

 the clear and silvery scaling is assumed ; but beyond the time when 

 the migratory change takes place we cannot depend upon the in- 

 crease of weight or size. Any one accustomed to see many Salmon 

 in different states fresh from their native rivers, and to compare them 

 with fish kept artificially, could at once say that Nos. 4, 5, and 6 had 

 been kept in fresh water ; this is particularly evident in the form of 

 Nos. 4 and 5, and we would account for the comparatively fine con- 

 dition of No. 6 by the lake being newly completed, and unstocked 

 (we presume) with other fish. It is well known how much common 

 Trout are influenced in their condition by being placed in a newly 

 formed pond or lake. The drawings by Mr. C. Curtis illustrating 

 Mr. Yarrell's paper were exhibited to the British Association at 

 Newcastle, and were then much admired. The coloured engravings 

 from these now published, are executed with great minuteness and 

 delicacy. 



Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa during the years 

 1836 and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope through the Terri- 

 tories of the Chief Moselekatse to the tropic of Capricorn. By 

 Captain W. C. Harris. 8vo. Bombay, 1838. Murray, London. 

 (Reprinted) 1839. 

 This volume may perhaps be thought by some scarcely to come 



