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  THE 
  ZOOLOGIST 
  

  

  NOTICES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  BOOKS. 
  

  

  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Sea 
  Fisheries 
  and 
  Fishing 
  Industries 
  of 
  the 
  Thames 
  

   Estuary. 
  Part 
  I. 
  Prepared 
  by 
  Dr. 
  James 
  Mukie. 
  Water- 
  

   low 
  Bros. 
  & 
  Layton, 
  Lim. 
  

  

  The 
  notice 
  of 
  this 
  real 
  contribution 
  to 
  natural 
  history 
  is 
  a 
  

   little 
  belated 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  fault 
  of 
  author 
  or 
  publisher, 
  but 
  it 
  

   having 
  been 
  sent 
  to 
  an 
  old 
  address 
  of 
  the 
  Editor, 
  the 
  local 
  postal 
  

   authorities 
  adhered 
  to 
  a 
  rigid, 
  hide-bound, 
  red 
  tape 
  intelligence, 
  

   and 
  the 
  book 
  has 
  only 
  just 
  reached 
  our 
  hands. 
  

  

  We 
  know, 
  more 
  or 
  less, 
  the 
  fauna 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Thames, 
  but 
  

   of 
  its 
  estuary 
  very 
  little, 
  especially 
  of 
  its 
  ichthyology. 
  ' 
  The 
  

   Zoologist 
  ' 
  has 
  contained 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time 
  many 
  notes 
  and 
  some 
  

   lists 
  of 
  its 
  avian 
  features, 
  but 
  of 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  its 
  waters 
  

   scarcely 
  anything 
  was 
  known, 
  save 
  what 
  information 
  could 
  be 
  

   derived 
  from 
  the 
  professional 
  fisherman, 
  the 
  amateur 
  angler, 
  or 
  

   the 
  commercial 
  fishmonger. 
  Its 
  surface 
  is 
  carefully 
  buoyed, 
  and 
  

   its 
  beacons 
  and 
  tides 
  understood 
  by 
  the 
  pilot, 
  the 
  strength 
  (?) 
  of 
  

   its 
  forts 
  pigeon-holed 
  at 
  the 
  War 
  Office, 
  and 
  its 
  charms 
  — 
  for 
  it 
  

   has 
  such 
  — 
  appreciated 
  by 
  the 
  Thames 
  excursionist 
  ; 
  but 
  Dr. 
  

   Murie 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  naturalist 
  w 
  T 
  ho 
  has 
  given 
  us 
  any 
  real 
  contri- 
  

   bution 
  to 
  its 
  biology. 
  And 
  yet 
  there 
  has 
  long 
  been 
  an 
  ample 
  

   material 
  to 
  utilize. 
  There 
  are 
  "North 
  Sea 
  or 
  deep-sea 
  trawlers 
  

   (Ptamsgate, 
  Dover, 
  Folkestone, 
  and 
  Brightlingsea) 
  ; 
  offshore 
  and 
  

   inshore 
  fisheries 
  (Harwich, 
  Tollesbury, 
  West 
  Mersea, 
  Margate, 
  

   Deal, 
  Dungeness, 
  &c.) 
  ; 
  estuarine 
  fisheries 
  (Maldon, 
  Sheerness, 
  

   Queenborough, 
  Southend, 
  and 
  Leigh) 
  ; 
  besides 
  the 
  great 
  shell 
  

   industries 
  (Whitstable, 
  Faversham, 
  Burnham, 
  &c), 
  so 
  charac- 
  

   teristic 
  of 
  the 
  conjoint 
  counties"'; 
  in 
  fact, 
  there 
  was 
  just 
  the 
  

   opportunity 
  for 
  a 
  competent 
  naturalist 
  to 
  write 
  an 
  instructive 
  

   and 
  pleasant 
  book, 
  which 
  we 
  should 
  like 
  to 
  see 
  on 
  sale 
  on 
  every 
  

   Thames 
  excursionist 
  steamer. 
  For 
  real 
  biological 
  information 
  

   is 
  not 
  an 
  esoteric 
  doctrine, 
  nor 
  need 
  it 
  be 
  written 
  in 
  an 
  unknown 
  

  

  