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might deteriorate in quality under the influence of the changed 
circumstances of their existence. Judging from the amount of 
success experienced in Norfolk, the results are not encouraging; 
a few fine Lake Trout have been taken, but Salmo fontinalis does 
not seem to thrive in Norfolk waters; after a time they disappear, 
in what way is uncertain. 
Returning to the Drill Hall, the display of Stuffed Fish was 
superb, and embraced the collections of the London Piscatorial 
Society, the Thames Silver Trout Club, Mr. Alfred Jardine, and 
many other club and private collections, not to mention Mr. Gunn 
and Mr. Cole, two local birdstuffers, who reaped well-earned 
honours for their fine displays. Of course in the county of the 
“ Broads,” the Pike claims a conspicuous place, and many magni- 
ficent specimens adorned the walls. Lady Durrant exhibited the 
outlines of five Pike taken at Scottow in 1885, the largest of which 
weighed 38 tbs. and the smallest 28tbs. Mr. Jardine showed a 
Pike which weighed 37 tbs. Two others were shown which were 
taken on the same day in different localities in Norfolk, the one 
weighing 36 Ibs. and the other 303 tbs.; two such handsome fish 
probably never before graced the window in which they were 
exhibited, in the flesh, side by side. To show the great weight to 
which Pike attain in the clear, well-stocked waters of the Broads, 
it is worth mentioning that eleven Pike taken in the season of 
1880 weighed 281 tbs., and three rods in one day’s fishing secured 
twenty-six fish weighing 154 tbs. Many fine Perch and Rudd, 
both of which fish attain a great weight in the Norfolk waters, 
were exhibited; but perhaps the most remarkable of all was a 
Bream taken at Beeston Regis by Mr. J. W. Cremer, which turned 
the scale at 11} tbs. Other Bream there were, which, although 
they weighed 94, 83, 7 or 6 tbs., were dwarfed by the side of the 
Beeston monster. Two other Norfolk fish were worthy of note, 
not on account of their beauty, for they scarcely seemed to belong 
to the same species as Mr. Buckland’s splendid 70 tbs. Salmo 
salar, but because they are the miserable remains of two of the 
only three Salmon which, to the knowledge of the writer, have 
been identified as having of late years been taken in Norfolk 
waters ; one was captured on a flooded meadow at Fakenham, the 
other in a smelt-net at the New Mills in Norwich. The third 
Salmon was also taken on some flooded meadows near the city ; 
it measured 48 inches in length, and weighed 17} Ibs., and not- 
