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me, which he thought was a curious Smelt. Its com- 

 paratively enormous teeth gave it the appearance of 

 a dwarfed Wolf-Fish. A certain [premium having 

 been placed upon each one he could bring me, the 

 boy set diligently to hunt for others, and with such 

 success that I soon had brought to me many more 

 than I needed, and certainly more than I felt dis- 

 posed to pay for. So the contract had to be 

 abandoned. I sent a couple to the British Museum, 

 when Dr. Gimther satisfied me with regard to my 

 finding of the species. Since that year I have seen 

 scarcely any examples. To the shrimpers I owe my 

 first sight of a Rock Goby, several of which have 

 from time to time been preserved for me. 



MULLER'S SCOPELUS 



My most interesting find I always consider to be 

 the Mullens Scopelus (Scopelus pennantn\ the 

 circumstances under which I found it, and its 

 extreme rarity, combining to make its discovery 

 quite an event in my early rambling days. I took 

 it suddenly into my head to walk to Gorleston 

 pierhead on a Sunday afternoon in April 1889. On 

 the way I was delayed half an hour in the market- 



