280 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Young Eels Two Hundred Miles Inland. — Mr. E. B. Marston, 

 writing in the 'Fishing Gazette' of June 3rd last, says : — "Mr. W. G. 

 Ashford, of Messrs. Milward's, of Eedditch, was telling me recently 

 of the fine Eels they get in their Barnt Green Fishing Club's water, 

 of which he is Hon. Sec. He said they saw the small Eels come 

 up and the large ones go down. I asked him if he could get me 

 specimens, and he kindly sent me a fine Eel of nearly three pounds, 

 which was excellent eating ; also, on May 24th, he sent me in a bottle 

 with some damp moss some small live Eels, 6 in., 7 in., and 8 in. in 

 length. I gave them to Mr. Green, the naturalist, at the east end of 

 Covent Garden Market. Mr. Ashford says : — ' These young Eels 

 were caught above a little waterfall a mile from the source of the 

 Arrow, in Worcestershire. The Arrow is a tributary of the Avon, 

 which again is a tributary of the Severn. The distance from the sea, 

 as the crow flies, is about one hundred and twenty miles, but the 

 distance they must have travelled can certainly be taken as two 

 hundred miles. Of course, the distance they travelled in salt water 

 is vastly more than that.' " 



At a meeting of the Zoological Society of London, held on June 

 27th last. Dr. W. T. Caiman, F.Z.S., exhibited a number of living 

 specimens of the Brine Shrimp [Artemia salina) which had been 

 bred from Tidman's Sea Salt. He remarked that this sea salt, as 

 sold in the shops, was found frequently to contain living eggs of 

 Artemia, and that it was easy to obtain a supply of living specimens. 

 An eight per cent, solution, allowed to stand for a few days, produced 

 a swarm of larvae, and these could be fed on the strained juice 

 of green leaves and raised to maturity. 



