SKELETON OF SALMON. 37 



After' I had caused a life-sized water- 

 colour portrait to be made of the "old 

 soldier," I packed him off to the British 

 Museum, where, in a few weeks, he will 

 figure as a beautiful white skeleton, and add 

 much to the interest of Dr. Giinther's 

 ichthyological gallery. I asked the doctor if 

 the " old soldier " was big enough for a 

 skeleton ; he replied, " He is big enough ; 

 did you ever know a big salmon caught but 

 what somebody else had caught a bigger ? 

 I shall take him." His skeleton will show 

 what a beautiful bit of water-going archi- 

 tecture there is in a salmon's skeleton. 



I have since received & female salmon from 

 Mr. Allies, of Worcester, which he found 

 dead after spawning in the Teme. This was 

 a valuable acquisition, for Dr. J. E. Gray 



