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penetrated the derma the fish may go to the sea and recover from its 

 attack, but on returning to fresh water the disease may break out again 

 from the hyphse in the derma. 



ARCHAEOLOGY. 



Fishing with Trained Cormorants, temp. Charles I.— Pennant, in 

 his account of the Cormorant (' British Zoology,' 1812, vol. ii., p. 283), 

 says : " These birds have been trained to fish like falcons to fowl. White- 

 lock tells us that he had a cast of them manned like Hawks, and which 

 would come to hand. He took much pleasure in them, and relates that 

 the best he had was one presented to him by Mr. Wood, Master of the 

 Cormorants to Charles I." It is presumed that the " Whitclock " here 

 referred to was Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, the author of " Memorials of 

 English Affairs from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First 

 to the happy restoration of King Charles the Second," but I have been 

 unable to find in this work any such statement as that quoted by Pennant, 

 either in the original edition, which has no index, or in the modern edition, 

 in four volumes, published at Oxford in 1853, wherein the index on this 

 point affords no assistance. There was a curious little volume published 

 in 1654 (12mo., pp. 568), entitled " Zootomia ; or, observations on the 

 present manners of the English," by Richard Whitlock ; and it occurred 

 to me that possibly this might be the author cited by Pennant. But 

 having with some trouble procured a sight of the book, I found it to contain 

 nothing but satirical discourses on morals and manners, in which few readers 

 at the present day would take the slightest interest. Being still curious to 

 trace Pennant's quotation to its original source, in the hope of finding 

 further information on the subject to which it relates, I should be much 

 obliged to any one who, having found it, would furnish me with the 

 exact reference. — J. E. Harting. 



A Whale in the Thames in 1658. — The following notice appeared in 

 the ' Mercuiius Politicus,' June 3rd to June 10th, 1658 :—" Whitehall, 

 June 2nd. This evening came hither divers seamen and watermen to give 

 an account of their having taken a Whale in the Thames not far from 

 Greenwich. It is strange that this kind of monster should quit the sea to 

 come up a river, and advance beyond the salt water so far into the fresh. 

 He hath lain upon the shore these three days at Greenwich Town's end, 

 a spectacle to many thousands of people that have flocked thither to behold 

 him. He is none of the bigger sort, being supposed but young, yet about 

 sixty feet long, and carrieth a very great bulk in the other dimensions." 



[This was probably a Rorqual or Fin Whale. — Ed.] 



Sperm Whales on the Kentish Coast in 1762. — An old newspaper of 

 May 17th, 1762, states that "the spermaceti and blubber of the four 



