250 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
“ Annexe,” 275 feet long by 70 feet wide. The whole was 
decorated with great taste, the hall being covered with crimson 
cloth, pannelled out with white and gold colour, and the roof 
ornamented with handsome trophies of flags. The “ Annexe,” 
which was appropriated to the larger exhibits, although not so 
elaborately decorated, presented a very pretty appearance, the 
roof and walls being festooned with various forms of nets and 
cordage, and hung with laurels and artificial flowers. In the 
ground outside the building were exhibited life-boats, life-saving 
apparatus, trawl-nets, full-sized boats, Knott’s refrigerating van, 
steam appliances for capstans, &c., and other objects too large to 
introduce into the building, including the skull of Hyperoodon 
latirostris, described at p. 258 of the present number. 
Commencing with the live fish, the most noteworthy feature 
was a series of fourteen large Aquaria, in which were exhibited 
a collection of the fresh-water fish found in Norfolk, which was 
nearly, if not quite, complete. Amongst them were the Three-, 
Four- and Ten-spined Sticklebacks, Rudd, White Bream, Burbot, 
Smelt, Crucian Carp, Ruffe, Broad-nosed Eel, and others rare or 
local, giving at a glance a capital idea of the fresh-water fish fauna 
of a district peculiarly rich in these creatures. To these were 
added fine specimens of species which it is sought to naturalise, 
such as the Golden Tench, American Brook Trout, Lake Trout, 
and a splendid Grayling, bred by Mr. Louis Buxton, which 
attracted much attention during the whole of the Exhibition. Of 
course the fish-breeding establishments were largely represented, 
including the Norfolk and Suffolk Fish Acclimatization Society, 
the Marquis of Exeter, Messrs. Andrews, Guy, Littlewood, Capel, 
and others, some of whom, in addition to the hatching-troughs in 
operation, showed specimens of the fish reared at their establish- 
ments of various ages, and amongst them a fine specimen of Salmo 
stomachicus by Mr. Capel. Interesting as these strangers doubtless 
are, and some of them very beautiful, too, looking at the subject 
of their acclimatization purely from a naturalist’s point of view, 
one cannot but feel a shadow of doubt as to the prudence of 
introducing them into our streams, whilst we have so many 
valuable native fishes which would be worth cultivating. Great 
caution should doubtless be exercised in introducing foreigners 
for whose behaviour in their new home we can have no guarantee, 
and which, even should they in other respects prove irreproachable, 
