3618 The Zoologist— July, 1873. 



Large Salmon. — A monster salmon was lately netted in the Severn, 

 between the New Passage and Littleton: its length was four feet nine 

 inches, its girth two feet eight inches, and its weight over seventy-eight 

 pounds. The largest salmon ever known to have been caught weighed 

 somewhere about ninety pounds, so that the fish landed on Tuesday was 

 within a dozen pounds of being the heaviest recorded example of his species. 

 It remained on view for two days in the shop of a fish salesman in North- 

 street, Bristol. — W. Peard, M.D., in the ' Field' of June 21. 



Large Salmon. — There used to be in the town of Usk a portrait of a 

 salmon weighing sixty-five pounds, which was taken in the river Usk ; and 

 I saw, two or three years ago, one of fifty pounds in Bristol, taken in 

 the Severn ; but the salmon I saw in the shop of Mr. Day, fishmonger, last 

 week, eclipsed all I have ever seen or heard of, as the following particulars 

 will show : — The length was four feet nine inches, the depth one foot, and 

 the thickness six inches ; weight eighty pounds. Of the dimensions I can 

 speak with certainty, as I saw the fish measured ; the weight I got from the 

 fishmonger. That the fish was an old one the extraordiuaiy size would 

 indicate, as would also the conformation of the jaws, which were elongated 

 into a cylindrical, or rather conical form, the under one especially, which 

 was greatly curved inwards. — TF. Jones ; Somerset-street, Kingsdown, Bristol, 

 — From the 'Field,' June 21. 



A Huge Lobster. — An enormous lobster was caught in Plymouth Sound 

 in the trawl-net of our cutter-yacht "Hilda" on Friday, the 13th instant. 

 It is quite perfect in every respect. Length from tip of the claw to end of 

 tail three feet two inches ; weight fifteen pounds two ounces and a quarter. 

 Several small oysters, mussels and barnacles are adhering to the shell. The 

 oldest fishermen here say they have never seen or heard of such a lobster 

 before. It is now being preserved by ^Mr. Peacock, of Plymouth, who 

 supposes it to be one hundred years old. — J. Barrington Deacon ; 6, Osborn- 

 place, Plymouth, June 17. — From the 'Field,' June 21. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



May 5, 1873.— H. T. Sta-inton, F.R.S., Ac, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 143 ; presented by the 



