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than to the Salmonida, to the Herring than to the Burn Trout : 

 in its internal organs it resembles the former as much as the 

 latter of these fishes. It may be a question whether it does not 

 rank more properly with the Clupeidce than with the Salmonidce. 

 If the presence of an adipose fin is to be the decisive point, then 

 the Yendace belongs unquestionably to the latter family. Per- 

 haps it is a connecting link between the two neighbouring fa- 

 milies. The lately acquired specimens of the Vendace have 

 been presented to the Museum. 



XI. — Second Instalment of a Catalogue of the more Remarkable 

 Trees of Northumberland and Durham. By George Clayton 

 Atkinson. 



Holly. A group of Hollies, consisting of twelve or fourteen 

 stems, and extending about 40 feet from N. to S., grow- 

 ing closely together, and about 20 feet high, grows on the 

 S. side of the road from Hexham to Slaley, half a mile S. 

 of the Linnels Bridge, where a branch road comes in from 

 Corbridge. It is " weel kenned" in the neighbourhood, as 

 " The Hollin Bush of the Linnels," and is said to be one 

 of the places where, during the rebellions of 1715 and 

 1745, the rebels and their friends exchanged letters. At 

 that date this bush was very likely a large hollow tree, in 

 which the letters of either party might have been deposited. 

 I visited the place in 1873, and had no difficulty in finding the 

 clump of scrubby Hollies ; but on asking if it was not the place 

 where the rebels exchanged letters in 1715 and 1745, every one 

 seemed chilled with caution, and nothing more could be learned 

 than that " The Hollin Bush of the Linnels" was a place " weel 

 kenned by the drovers" (it is by the side of one of the great 

 lines of road by which the drovers took cattle from Scotland and 

 the north of England southward), "but it aye had a bad name." 

 At present, as I say, it is a scrub of closely growing bushes, 

 rather bowed out in a sort of arbour on the roadside, where the 



