PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



1837-38. No. 12. 



55th Session. First Ordinary Meeting. 



Monday, Ath December 1837. 

 Sir T. M. BRISBANE, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. On the Food of the Herring and Salmon. By John 

 Stark, Esq. 



The author of this paper, after some preliminary observations, 

 arranged his remarks under the following heads: — 1. On the food 

 and sex of the Vendace of Lochmaben. 2. On the food of the 

 Herring (Clupea Harengus, Lin.) And, 3, On the food of the Sal- 

 mon {^Salmo salary Lin.) 



1. As to the food of the Vendace (Coreponus Lavarefus, Fleming), 

 he observed, that fishes in lakes, and feeding on animal food, must 

 necessarily subsist on the small aquatic animals found in these lakes : 

 That there is no reasonable analogy between the vendace and the 

 herring, because they live in different mediums, the one in salt, the' 

 other in fresh water ; and that their food cannot, therefore, be the 

 same, none of the animals upon which fishes feed being common to 

 both : That, besides, they are of different natural families : That 

 writers on natural history state the animalcules which are found in 

 the stomach of the vendace, and the other minute animals found 



