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Melica uniflora. Dunsop, Whitewell, Browsholme, etc., not 

 uncommon. 



Asplenium viride. Specimens shown to Mr. Crombie by farmer 

 of Trough House, Bowland Trough, which were brought 

 down from high gritstone rocks at head of Brenand Valley, 

 1901. 



Equisetum maximum. Much more abundant at Whitewell 

 than at first supposed and very fine, 1902. 



NOTES on LANCASHIRE FISHES. 

 Shark on the North Lancashire Coast. — A man seeking for 'flukes' 

 between Tridley Point and Meaness early in July, found in a hole in 5 ft. 

 water a dead Shark (Lamna cornubica Gm.), about 5 ft. long-. A dangerous 

 customer to face alive with a fluke prod in a place with more turning room. 

 Macpherson's ' Fauna,' 466-7, gives no Lancashire locality. — S. L. Petty, 

 Ulverston, 28th July 1902. 



Sturgeon on the North Lancashire Coast.— On 18th July some 

 fishermen netting for Salmon caught a Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio L. ) near 

 Tridley Viaduct. According to the account in the 'Advertiser,' 24th July, 

 the fish was 8 ft. long, about 5 ft. in girth, and was said to weigh about 

 3 cwt. I heard after the capture that the weight was really above 3^ cwt. 

 It went to Barrow and was sold there at small prices. The only one 

 mentioned by Macpherson, ' Fauna,' 470-71, for North Lancashire is a small 

 one — 60-70 lbs. — and caught in 1842. 



The share once claimed by the King was declined on account of his 

 Majesty's absence from London. The Duke of Devonshire, the owner of 

 the Leven fishing rights, wrote pleading absence also. I hear that a few 

 years ago a small example of the same fish was obtained in about the same 

 locality. 



The head has been obtained by Mr. Scott for preservation for the 

 Fishery Laboratory. — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, 28th July 1902. 



NOTE on YORKSHIRE FISHES. 

 Fishes in the Parish of Halifax.— The following is a list of the 

 fishes I have met with in the parish of Halifax : — 

 Perca fluviatilis. Perch. Uncommon. 

 Cottus gobio. Miller's Thumb. Plentiful. 

 Gastrosteus aculeatus. Stickleback. Very plentiful. 

 Cyprinus carpio. Carp. Uncommon. 



Carassius auratus. Gold Carp. Common in warm waters such as mill 

 dams, 



Gobio fluviatilis. Gudgeon. Uncommon. 



Leuciscus rutilus. Roach. Common in places. 



Lenciscus cephahfs. Chub. Uncommon. 



Leuciscus vulgaris. Dace. Common in places. 



Leuciscus phoxinus. Minnow. Very plentiful. 



Tinea vulgaris. Tench. Uncommon. 



Nemachilus barbatidus. Loach. Common. 



Salmo fario. Trout. Common. 



Anguilla vulgaris. Eel. Uncommon. 

 Some which are now uncommon were once common: e.g.. the Eel was 

 very plentiful in the Calder 40 years ago. A specimen was once taken in 

 the dam-stones at Longbottom Bridge nearly three feet Long. clAStOLD 

 Pickles, 137, Hyde Park Road, Halifax, 31st May 1902. 



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