2?8 SEA BREAM IN ESSEX WATERS. 



advocated the appointment of a Committee, which should (i) 

 collect details as to the exact work already accomplished, (2) 

 circulate printed matter making the aims and methods of the 

 surveys widely known, (3) endeavour to co-ordinate the 

 photographic societies on the one hand, and the literary and 

 scientific societies on the other, so that all may unite in the work 

 of the survey, (4) obtain lists of experts willing to advise on 

 details of the work, and (5) secure the publication of series 

 ■of prints dealing with either districts or subjects. 



The delegates who were present warmly supported Mr. 

 Harrison's project, and it was proposed to secure, if possible, at 

 next year's meeting of the British Association at Leicester, the 

 appointment of a County Photographic Committee. It may be 

 noted that in the course of the discussion Dr. H. H. Turner, 

 F.R.S., professor of astronomy in the University of Oxfoid, 

 pointed out the desirability of taking photographs on stereographic 

 principles, for use in making a ground-plan of the objects 

 photographed as explained in the Monthly Notices oj the Royal 

 Astronomical Society for December, 1901, p. 126. 



SEA BREAM IN ESSEX WATERS. 



By JAMES MUR1E, M.D., LL.D., F.L.S. 



SO far as I am aware there is no record of the Sea-Bream 

 (Pagellns centrodontus) having been met with strictly within 

 Essex waters. Dr. Laver does not mention it in The 

 Mammals, Reptiles and Fishes of Essex, 1 or in his additions since 

 in the Victoria History, Vol. I. 



Neither to my knowledge is it included in any of Mr. E. A. 

 Fitch's lists of captures in his various notes in several volumes 

 of the Essex Naturalist. The above two naturalists being 

 reliable authorities on our local fish-fauna, their silence doubtless 

 betokens absence of information thereon. I have, however, been 

 fortunate enough to obtain a true Essex example, inasmuch as it 

 was obtained within half a mile of low- water mark. 



The fish in question was caught by one of our Leigh white- 

 baiters, Harry Johnson (best known by nickname — " Roughy "), 

 on 5th November last (1906). He and his mate were then 

 using the stow-net, between the Crow Stone and the end of 



1 Special Memoirs of Essex Field Club, Vol. III. 



