The Vertebrates of Solway. 



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jear the shoal lay in the channel from the Blackshaw to the 

 Lightship on the Cumberland side, and nearly 100 boats were 



^ngaged in the fishing. It is a matter of interest that the 

 iferrings are recorded to have spawned that season in local 

 waters. The Marypoit boats alone realised upwards of £10 000 

 from the season's work. The time may again come round when 

 Herring will visit the firth in their old numbers, but they are not 

 likely to do so until the banks and channels get back to' the con- 

 <1ition they were in half a century ago. That may never happen 



^gain, if my idea turns out to be correct, that the Solway firth is 

 -silting up at a comparatively rapid rate. 



Three more species of fish ought to be mentioned. These 



^re the American Charr, the Black Bass, and the Rainbow Trout 

 J hey have been introduced for more than a decade now, and 



^eem to have thriven. Individuals of each of them have been 



taken at considerable distances from where they were orio-inallv 



put into our waters. " '^ ' 



21st December, 1900. 



The Rev. Wm. Andson in the chair. 



JVe2v Afeml^er.—m Pearson of Luce, near Annan. 



notations and Exckanges.-yiovih American Fauna, No. 19 • 

 J>esult.s of a Biological Renaissance of the Yukon River Reg-ion- 

 €oleoptera of Reigate, Part III., Staphylinidea^, by John Linnell.' 



The Secretary submitted certain papers received from a 

 gentleman in Dunscore Parish .-(1) A notice addressed to James 

 •-rierson, Esq., Palgonar, intimating that on account of the 

 oho.era in Dumfries (1832) business for the Michaelmas Head 

 Court would be postponed. The notice was covered wi, h MSS 

 Jott,ngs regarding wonders, freaks, &c., and among others was a 

 note of the prolihcity of a Russian peasant, from the Scots Maga- 

 zme 1700, M^hich corresponded with a similar account of Russln 

 pro lificity pubhshed in the >' Lancet" in 1857, and in Gould and 

 Pyles Anomalies of Medicine; (2) A letter regarding ihe second 



