SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE 



HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMONIDjE. 



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THE SALMON. 



Salmo salar, Auctorum, British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 1. 



Since the publication of that part of the History of 

 British Fishes which contains an account of the Salmon, 

 Mr. John Shaw of Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire has printed 

 in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July 1 886 

 and January 1838, detailed particulars of various interesting 

 and valuable experiments, made by himself, on the develope- 

 ment and growth of the fry of the Salmon, from their ex- 

 clusion from the ova to the age of seven months. 



Three ponds, varying in size, one eighteen feet by twenty- 



VOL. II. B 



