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as the lemon sole, wliile tlie fishermen of that port always call it 

 the " megrim." 



Couch gives the name Mary sole to Arnoglossus megastoma and 

 megrim to A. laterna. As he lived at Polperro it is possible that 

 the names are used there as he gives them, for I am informed 

 by Mr. Dunn, of Mevagissey, that the names are applied there in 

 quite a different way from that in which they are used at Polperro. 

 At Mevagissey, according to Mr. Dunn, the name megrim is quite 

 unknown, and the two species o£ Arnoglossus are called, " carter " 

 and " scaldfish," or either of them may be called the " lauthorn ;" 

 the PI. mia-Qcephalus is called the " butter-fish,'^ but lately a few 

 call it the '' merry sole," this name having apparently been recently 

 introduced from Plymouth. The name lemon sole appears to be 

 confined to Solea lascaris. It is noticeable that both Yarrel and 

 Couch assert that Arnoglossus laterna is called the megrim in 

 Coi-nwall, although it is quite certain that among Plymouth fishermen 

 megrim always means A. megastoma. But Couch alone ascribes 

 the name Mary sole to A. megastoma, and as both Yarrell and 

 Plymouth custom agree in giving this name to Fl. microceplialus 

 perhaps Couch made a mistake. 



Two flat-fishes which are common on the Scottish coasts seem to 

 be entirely absent from the coasts of Devon and Cornwall ; at 

 least I have not yet met with a specimen of either. These are 

 Pleuronectes cynoglossus and Hippoglossoides Ihnandoides . The 

 former is called the " witch," the latter the " long rough dab," on 

 the shores of the Firth of Forth, while the former is usually 

 called the " pole flounder " by British naturalists. 



All the fishes I have given in the list of names used by Plymouth 

 fishermen have a value in the market as food with four excep- 

 tions, namely, Capros aper, Callionymus lyra, Arnoglossus laterna, 

 and Caranx irachurus. 



The Netherlands Zoological Station — Professor A. A. W. Hubrecht 

 has kindly furnished some particulars relative to the history and 

 work of this institution. The Netherlands Zoological Association 

 recognised in 1875 the necessity of having an establishment on the 

 Dutch coast suitable for anatomical and microscopical investigation 

 of marine Fauna and Flora. A Committee was appointed to take 

 the steps necessary for realising this scheme, but reported early in 

 the following year that a suitable locality was not to be had in those 

 places on the Dutch coast where a zoological station might be 

 built with a prospect of success, and that the funds at the disposal 

 of the Association did not permit of a permanent building being 

 erected on a suitable scale. Accordingly, it was determined, on the 



