VI PREFACE 



Jenkins, and the publishers, Messrs. Constable ; for 

 the frontispiece and No 18, to the Grimsby Coal, Salt 

 and Tanning Co ; for Nos. 11, 14 and 20 to Mr. Walter 

 Wood, of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. 



Mr. R. A. Fleming, of Liverpool University, very kindly 

 copied Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 for me from Day's British 

 Fishes. 



Chapter V is based upon Sitting's monograph on "the 

 preparation of the cod and other salt fish for the market" 

 (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bur. of Chem. Bull. No. 133). 



W. E. G. 

 RUNCORN, 1922. 



