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of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh (vol. xiv. pi. 4). 

 He states that the fishermen of the Solway Firth 

 had long been in the habit of noticing that two 

 species of Sturgeon were occasionally entangled in 

 their nets ; and he obtained a fine specimen of the 

 Blunt -nosed one, from the Firth of Forth, in July 

 1835. It was taken near Alloa, and sent to the 

 Edinburgh market, where it sold at a shilling a 

 pound. A few weeks after another of nearly equal 

 size was caught in the Tay, which was also sent to 

 the Edinburgh market : an entire specimen of the 

 sea-mouse (Aphrodita aculeata) was found in its 

 stomach. We are not aware that any other examples 

 of the broad-nosed sturgeon have occurred in Britain^ 

 except the two mentioned by Dr. ParneU. 



