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in the Far East is the migration of sharks to European 

 waters. The submarine explosions are supposed to have 

 frightened the creatures, which, coming via the Suez Canal, 

 have made havoc among the fish of the Adriatic.' 



" This has the smack of an Eastern fable about it. ... 

 I myself have dared to suggest ... in the Zoologist that 

 the incursion of so many steam luggers into the haunts of 

 the herrings has driven away the larger sharks and various 

 cetaceans from the locality. We have most certainly lived 

 to see a great diminution of these once frequently taken 

 sea-monsters. . . . What a pity our allies did not label a 

 few of the emigrants ! Why did not the Marine Biological 

 Association think of this before the war began ? 



" I have not yet fallen in with a nice fresh ' huss,' or 

 * doggie/ and shall now postpone experiments until after the 

 holidays. . . . Your ' doggie ' enthusiasts must not altogether 

 despair of me, but must exercise charity as well as patience. 

 ... I would have 



" ' All who know the dear, delusive art 

 By which Culina mollifies the heart, 

 In pity to relent the brow severe, 

 And o'er a brother's weakness drop the tear. 3 



" I say, sirs, when you get diving in amongst the old 

 classic gourmands, how doe the spirit of envy creep in ! 

 and how you do come to fall into line with them until 

 one can believe that 



"'. . . If, as Epicurus sings, 



All our joy from eating springs ; 



Him who most enjoyment follow, 



Who's widest mouth and longest swallow.' " 



INTRODUCING THE DOG-FISH 



A rather amusing incident that attended the first really 

 serious introduction of the dog-fish as an article of food, came 

 under my notice late in January, 1907. I was passing the 

 barrow of a local itinerant fish-seller, when I noticed four 

 long fish-carcases, skinned and ready for cooking, looking 

 temptingly fresh and " flaky." 



" What have you got there ? " I asked. 



" Japanese flake," said the fish-hawker, with a wink ; he is 

 one of my " scouts " for things strange in the fish line. 

 " They've got some Japanese name for it," he added. 



