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requested that she should be presented to 

 the British Museum, and she ^^'ill shortly be 

 placed in the ichthjological galleries in the 

 form of a skeleton, a fit companion for the 

 '' old soldier " I have described above. Dr. 

 Glinther and myself made an examination of 

 this fish to ascertain the cause of death. 

 We found that exhaustion ^yas not, as in the 

 male fish, the cause of death. There Tvas 

 actual inflammation and considerable de- 

 crease of the left ovary, which was found to 

 be in such a condition as to tell us much of 

 the mode in which the ova are first of all 

 formed and afterwards protruded from the 

 ovar}^ itself I understand from Mr. Allies 

 that, as a rule, many more male than female 

 fish die after spawning. He says, ^'I saw 

 five large cock-salmon dead in two miles of 



