of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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APPENDIX F. — No. VIII. 



CIPtCULARS by Fishery Board to Fishery Officers, instructing them 

 to forward to Scientific Investigation Committee Samples of Herring 

 and Sprats taken during Winter of 1883-4. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, IQth December 1883. 



Sir, — With reference to the scientific investigations that are now being 

 carried on by a Committee of this Board, — 



You are directed to give special attention during the present winter to 

 the Sprat and Herring Fisheries, should there be any such going on in 

 your district, noting daily the quantity caught, and especially what pro- 

 portion of herrings there are amongst the sprats, and what proportion of 

 herrings taken are immature (say from 6 to 7 inches in length). 



You are also directed to procure and transmit, from time to time, to 

 Professor Cossar Ewart, M.D., University of Edinburgh, samples of sprats 

 when mixed with young herrings, and samples of full and immature 

 herrings caught in the ordinary drift herring net. These samples should 

 be despatched in game or other boxes by parcel post, the whole packet 

 not to exceed 3 lbs. in weight. 



You will furnish Professor Ewart at the same time with a statement in 

 regard to the samples you send him, showing where the fish were caught, 

 and giving such other particulars as you consider may be of use. A 

 copy of this statement should also be sent to the Board. — I am, Sir, 

 your obedient Servant, 



Dugald Graham, Secretary. 



P.S. — Should you have any difficulty in obtaining the boxes herein 

 referred to, you will apply at once to the Head Office for a supply, stating 

 the number required. These boxes can be obtained here for about 4d. 

 each. 



Fishery Officer, 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 31st December 1883. 



Sir, — I am desired to inform you that there has been forwarded to 

 your address by the Convener of the Scientific Investigation Committee of 

 the Board a tin case containing eight small bottles, each of which is half 

 filled with methylated spirit ; and that a second case, with similar bottles, 

 will be sent to you shortly, 



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