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Eyton, Gould, Yarrell, Hewitson, and others, as well as of many 
continental and contemporary authors. It should here he men- 
tioned, inasmuch as the reputation of his book, is chiefly founded 
on its ornithological portion, that his ‘Fauna’ includes remarks 
on the quadrupeds (including extinct mammalia) and river fish, as 
well as the birds of Norfolk, and in both the former divisions of 
his subject Mr. Lubbock evinces an amount of practical knowledge 
and research, which has been fully recognised in the recent papers 
contributed to this society by Mr. Southwell and Dr. Lowe. His 
chapters on “ river fish and angling ” are full of interest, combining 
as they do his continental and home experience, with rod and line ; 
and his remarks upon the importance of preserving the fish of our 
rivers, not merely for sport, hut as an important article of diet, 
owing to the increasing cost of other kinds of provisions, should 
have even greater weight now with our local authorities than they 
had some thirty years ago— before the Yare below Norwich had 
become the main sewer of the city, and an Act of Parliament was 
rendered necessary to prevent the depopulation of our broads, 
dykes, and rivers, by a wholesale system of netting. The bulk of 
the small fry thus taken serving no higher purpose than that of 
manure. His observations, also, on the indifference manifested 
by the poorer classes in this country to many of our river fish, 
through ignorance of the best means of cooking them — in which 
the Normandy peasants excel — are as worthy of attention now as 
in days gone by. 
The importation into our broads of fish, valuable for their size 
and flavour, from continental rivers, was likewise a favourite theme 
with Mr. Lubbock, which he urged with some force in one of his 
Museum lectures, but whilst he speaks of the increase of trout in 
some of our streams, and the introduction of Salmo fontinalis, is 
an accomplished fact within the last few years, still, denuded as 
our main rivers have been by the unchecked depredations of 
poachers, we can dispense, for some years to come, with the acclima- 
tisation of such fishes of prey as Silurus giants, and the pike-perch, 
to keep down, as he terms it, the “superabundance of our coarser 
kinds of fish, particularly bream.” Indeed, his concluding words 
on this subject have been only too prophetic, “ the lapse of a few 
years may so change the scene that what is now spoken of may 
exist no longer,” 
