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FisJieries (Plymouth, 1870), and in the little Trade Cata- 

 logues of Hearder and Son, and of C. & R. Brooks, both 

 tackle makers at Plymouth, who exhibited and won dis- 

 tinction at the Fisheries Exhibition. But as valuable a 

 volume as any connected with our sea fisheries is the 

 Selection of Prize Essays recently published by the Com- 

 mittee of the Edinburgh Fisheries Exhibition of last year. 

 Almost every subject connected with the fishing industry 

 is therein most fully treated on. The volume is entitled 

 Essays on Fish and Fisheries, and is published by Black- 

 wood and Sons, Edinburgh. 



Mr. Andrew Young's Natural History and Habits of 

 the Salmon (Longman and Co., 1874), The Autobiography 

 of Salmo Salar, Esq., already mentioned in Chapter VI., 

 and Mr. Archibald Young's Salmon Fisheries (attached to 

 Mr. Holdsworth's book on sea fishing), are among the works 

 to be referred to in connection with the fish that hovers 

 between salt and fresh water, and has both a sporting 

 and commercial importance. Mr. T. Brady's Reports, and 

 other publications in reference to Irish fisheries, are also 

 very valuable. Olsen's pictorial Atlas of the North Sea, &c. 

 (O. T. Olsen, Grimsby), should be possessed by all who 

 wish to study our sea fisheries. The last work we will 

 mention is The British Fisheries Directory, recently pub- 

 lished by Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. It may truly 

 be called a child of the Fisheries Exhibition, and it is to 

 be hoped that it will be established as an annual. Of its 

 usefulness to both amateur and professional fishermen there 

 can be no doubt, as it is a book of statistics and general 

 information in connection with every department of the 

 fishing industry of the United Kingdom. The idea was an 

 excellent one, and it has been excellently carried out. For 

 a variety of other works, bearing more or less directly on 



