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were made until 

 a few years ago. 

 anything he has 



the scale belongs. But no very close or reliable investigations as 

 to how the ages of salmon might be read from their scales 

 Mr. H. W, Johnston took up the study 

 Although I am not actually quoting from 

 written, I think his authority for every- 

 thing I am going to say, unless I may quote someone else, will 

 be found in one or other of his contributions to the Reports of 

 the Scottish Fisherv Board. (See Parts II. of the Reports for 

 1904, 1906, and 1907.) 



Text-f]o-. 96. 







Scale of a Quimiat (O. tschawytscha) 62j lbs., <?. Length oO| ins.; girth 31 ins. 

 Captured at New Westminster, B.C., in 1912. 



A salmon scale is divided into two areas, one, the anterior and 

 larger part, being enclosed in a pocket in the skin, to Avhich it is 

 loosely attached ; the other, the posterior area, being the only 

 part of the scale which we see while it is still attached to the 



