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right to claim the fish we see landed here as belonging to our 

 immediate neighbourhood. The steam-trawlers go far afield, 

 .... but there are others which make their captures nearer 

 home, and by the exercise of due caution a shrewd guess may be 

 formed and often accurate information obtained as to the locality 

 of their origin." He further regretted there was " nobody living 

 there who takes an interest in the subject." I have shared that 

 regret, and have often wished that there was some enthusiastic 

 Suffolk ichthyologist competent to supply such a catalogue as 

 would bear a fair comparison with the large list of those already 

 known to have occurred in Norfolk water 3. 



Both at Aldeburgh and Southwold, as well as at Lowestoft 

 and the fishing villages between, rare fish must occasionally be 

 met with. It was quite by accident that, since I had penned the 

 greater part of this paper, I fell in with Eobert Wake's ' South- 

 wold and its Vicinity' (1839). In this interesting volume there 

 is a bare list of the marine species of that neighbourhood, with 

 but two lines of introduction. He, however, concludes the list 

 with a sort of footnote, remarking : " Besides the above, 

 numberless nondescript small fish are occasionally taken in the 

 trawl-nets." What an interesting array these " nondescripts " 

 should make ! Wake gives us a list of fifty-one species, from 

 which two so-called species must be eliminated, and two allowed 

 to remain with a ?. These will be noted in the list that follows. 



Thanks to Mr. Southwell's paper for providing me with an 

 incentive to research, my endeavours to draw up a bona fide 

 list of respectable dimensions afforded me a most interesting 

 series of flying visits to the chief fishing stations in East Suffolk. 

 It has been my pleasure to verify species already recorded, 

 and to add several hitherto unnoticed. I previously possessed a 

 number of ''records" of fish which had come into my hands, 

 and there were a few, of rarer sorts, figuring in the lists included 

 in the 1 Transactions ' of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society, which were of service to me. I suppose I may term 

 this an initial collective list of the East Suffolk species ; I hope 

 its publication will offer inducement to still further research. I 

 may add that I consider greater credit is due to him who, already 

 having had the ground prospected, fills up gaps (which I have 

 certainly left) and adds fishes hitherto unrecorded. 



