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June 6, Swansea Bay. *S'. acus, pouch on th^ posterior portion of 

 the belly, /m//. 



July 8, Swansea Bay. S. acus, young alive and obvious to the un- 

 assisted eye : some still wdthin the ova, some partially, and others 

 wholly liberated. All the above specimens are preserved in the Royal 

 Institution of South Wales. They were all taken above low water mark. 



In S. lumbriciformis the pouch is on the anterior instead of the 

 posterior portion of the belly as in ^S*. acus ; and the membrane run- 

 ning round the edges of the pouch is not so fully developed. 

 I am. Gentlemen, your obedient servant, 



Matthew Moggridge. 



On the Resuscitation of Frozen Fish. By Prof. O. P. Hubbard. 



For a number of years, during my residence in New Hampshire, I 

 have received from numerous sources, the statement that fish taken 

 in the cold of winter from our ponds and thrown out upon the ice 

 and freezing quite hard, have been restored to their usual activity 

 when thrown again into cold water. 



That they would ever have moved again if left alone is incredible ; 

 and how far and for what time a fish may be frozen and yet be re- 

 stored is not shown by experiment. I have good reasons, from the 

 character of my informers, for believing that the facts are as stated, 

 though when repeated they are hardly credible to others ; and I am 

 much gratified in obtaining for publication the following authentic 

 account of a satisfactory instance. 



Persons who have had similar experience are requested to commu- 

 nicate the facts in detail to the writer. 



"Some time in the winter of 1838 or 1839 — living near a stream 

 abounding with fish, which emptied into a pond near by, — I was in 

 the habit, daily, of catching them, (as they pass down stream,) by 

 means of an eel-pot. This was so constructed as to receive and retain 

 them without injury, if taken out soon, and on one occasion, the pot 

 having remained longer than usual, so many were caught as nearly to 

 fill the pot, and numbers perished from pressure or want of air. 



" It was the custom to examine the pot in the morning. On one 

 occasion, a severe cold morning, in January I think, I took up the pot 

 and found a considerable number were taken. These I emptied upon 

 the snow, which was deep and so crusted with ice as nearly or quite 

 to bear me up. 



" I then replaced the eel-pot in its proper bed for another draught, 

 which took me about twenty minutes, and then gathered up my fish, 

 exposed on the snow, into a pail or basket, and found them frozen as 

 stiff as icicles. 



" I carried them home to the shop, where they remained frozen, ac- 

 cording to my recollection, for the space of an hour and a half longer, 

 and so stiff and inflexible that they could not be bent without cracking, 

 as did some of their tails and fins in pulling them apart when they 

 were congealed together. I then put them into a tub of water drawn 

 from the well, to thaw them for dressing, and I think added a small 

 (piantity of warm water that stood upon the stove, but am not certain 

 whether it was before or after scaling them. 



