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 Dorset Couutp Museum anD 



MAY, 1911 MAY, 1912. 



By THE CURATOR. 



QINCE the last Annual Meeting of the Dorset 

 Field Club, although the pages of the Museum 

 Acquisition Book record a considerable 

 number of useful and acceptable objects, 

 there has been scarcely anything of an 

 exceptional character, or such as would mark 

 the year as memorable in the history of the 

 Museum. 



The most unusual acquisition is the model of the sturgeon 

 captured at Bindon Mill, in the river Frome, on 2nd July, 

 1911, by Captain C. E. Radclyffe. The model was given by 

 him at the request of H.M. King George, to whom the original 

 fish was presented. 



Captain Radclyffe supplied the following note : " The 

 sturgeon, for which extensive fisheries exist in the estuaries 

 of Southern Russia, is of rare occurrence in English rivers. 



