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Mr Sanders of Rosebank said this was one of the most impor- 
tant feeding stuffs in this country, and it would be well that 
farmers should be made aware of the defects of the bean. 
THE VENDACE. By R. Service, M.B.O.U. 
At a recent meeting of this society he had the privilege of 
reading a paper upon “ The Vendace,’’ in the course of which he 
had occasion to allude to the fact that the Lochmaben folks had 
not any monopoly of the vendace as was often supposed, because 
it was also found in Bassenthwaite and Ullswater. A post or 
two afterwards brought a copy of a paper, reprinted from the cur- 
rent number of the “ Annals and Magazine of Natural History.’’ 
This was by his friend, Mr C. Tate Regan, one of the staff of the 
British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington, who had 
been investigating the vendaces from the Lochmaben lochs and 
the waters of Lakeland. There were found sufficient structural 
differences betwixt the vendaces of these separate localities to 
justify the naming of the English fish as a distinct species, under 
the specific title of “Coregonus gracilior.”’ On the present 
occasion he did not propose to discuss the structural charac- 
ters on which the new species was founded, but he wished 
to congratulate Provost Halliday and the town clerk, Mr Rae, 
whom he saw present, on the fact that for the first time they might 
safely assure the good folks of Lochmaben that no one would now 
dispute with them the sole possession of at least one species of 
vendace. 
SEASONAL MOVEMENTs OF FISHES IN THE SOLWAY AREA. By 
R. Service, M.B.O.U. 
These were in many respects comparable to the migrations of 
birds, and probably had much in common, although the subject 
was a very obscure one, upon which little was accurately known. 
Like the birds, the fishes when migrating moved for the most part 
in large bodies, and while birds went up to high altitudes to per- 
form their journeys, fish in like manner came from the greater 
depths to the surface. The reason for this was plain—both the birds 
and the fishes met with a lessened resistance in the element they 
respectively moved in. Fishes naturally fell into some four large 
