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on the alert for another, hoping all the time it might 

 not be quite so large; and on 13th January 1902 I 

 was fortunate to meet with another, which I sent to 

 Mr. Southwell, who forwarded it to Mr. Lydekker 

 at the Cromwell Road Natural History Museum. 

 Mr. Southwell afterwards wrote to me : 



"You will see by enclosed letter from Mr. 

 Lydekker that there is no doubt about the fish 

 being a hybrid between the Turbot and Brill, and 

 that they are glad of it at the B.M. It was more 

 use there than it would have been here (Norwich). 1 ' 



HERMAPHRODITE HERRING 



Through the courtesy of a local fish curer I was 

 given the combined roe and milt taken from a 

 Herring in January 1902. It was forwarded to Mr. 

 Southwell, who wrote an article upon it in the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History ', March 

 1902, series 7, vol. ix. He writes : 



"Dr. Gunther remarks (Study of Fishes) that 

 instances of so-called hermaphroditism have been 

 observed in the Codfish, some of the Pleuronectidae, 

 and in the Herring ; but I believe that in the latter 

 species such instances are very rare. It may therefore 



