THE TECHNOLOGIST. 



[May 1, 1865. 



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THE EUROPEAN SILU11US. 



species is noticed in Yarrell's " British Fishes " ; not that this author 

 believed it a native, but because it had the reputation of having been 

 found here, on the faith of a paragraph in Sibbald's " Scotia Illustrata." 

 There is no doubt that the conclusion arrived at was a wrong one, not 



The European Silcrus (Sihcrus giants, Bote). 



admitted by Cuvier and Valenciennes in their great work on the 

 " Natural History of Fishes," who state that its distribution in Europe 

 does not extend to the British Isles. 



The Silurus was originally classed by Cuvier between the pike and 



