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granular amorphous mass/' (Ann. of Nat. Hist 

 ix. 67.) 



We cannot conclude these details without men- 

 tioning a circumstance to which our attention was 

 kindly directed by W. A. Cadell, Esq., F. R. SS. 

 L. & E., that veteran in Science, so curious and 

 keen in all its varied departments. It is this : That 

 on the beautiful stoneware which, in former times, 

 was wont to be sent to this country from China, 

 there is occasionally depicted fishes apparently la- 

 bouring under the affection now under review. Mr. 

 Cadell pointed out one example, an old China dish, 

 or plate, with two silver handles, on which some 

 fishes are represented, three of a deep blue colour, 

 and one yellowish, in most of which these filamen- 

 tous vegetable-looking appendages, sometimes co- 

 loured, are most conspicuous. Such a representa- 

 tion is scarcely to be ascribed to wild fancy; but 

 probably arose from actual observation. So that, 

 did opportunity permit, we might possibly receive 

 valuable information on the subject from this most 

 singular and isolated people.* 



* We refer the Student of Natural History to two Memoirs 

 bjf Professor M'uller, which were read to the Berlin Academy 

 on June 21, and July 19, 1841, and of which accounts appear 

 in " I/Institut" for November and December last, pp. 378 and 

 449. The former is entitled upon Pathological Exanthemata, 

 with specific organised seed corpuscules. These were found in 

 the eye of the pike, and had something like caudal appendages. 

 Excited by these to further investigation, Professor MUller dis- 

 covered a similar corpuscular exanthema, but without the ap- 

 !>endage, in the Lucioperca sandra, Cyprinus rut.'lus, and some- 



