SUPPIiEMENT 



TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE 



HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. 



ABDOMIXAL 



MALACUPTERYGII. 



SALMONIDM. 



THE SALMON. 



Salino satar, AurroiiUM, British Fishes, vol. ii. p. I. 



Since the publication of tliat part of the History of 

 British Fishes Avhich contains an account of tlie Sahnon, 

 JMr. John Shaw of Drunihmripf, Dumfriessliirc has printed 

 in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July 1836 

 and January 1838, detailed particulars of various interesting 

 and valuable experiments, made by himself, on the developc- 

 ment and growth of the fry of the Salmon, froni their ex- 

 clusion from the ova to the age of seven months. 



Three ponds, varying in size, one eighteen feet by twcnty- 



VOL. II. B 



