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return of the number of herring landed at the Fish-wharf in the 
Autumn Fishery at Yarmouth and Lowestoft. 
Year. 
No. of La.sts,* 
Yarmouth. 
Lasts 
at Lowestoft. 
1867 
No account. 
6,154 
1868 
15,511 
7,035 
1869 
13,386 
6,912 
1870 
18,709 
anfl 2000 at Quay. 
10,456 
1871 
19,871 
and a proat ()uantity 
lauded at Quay. 
14,390 
1872 
14,.500 
6,920 
1873 
18,795 
10,937 
* The number of fish in a last is 13,200. 
The herring is frequently mentioned in the “ L’Estrange Hou.se- 
hold Book.” “ Item. — To John Browne, of Lynn, for ij barrels of 
whyte heryngos, xxijd.” “Item. — Paid to Bichard Bessye, of 
Lynn, fur ij cases of red heryngs, xvjd.” 
Clupea Leaciiii (Yar.) Leach’s Herring. 
This, which Mr. YarreU had regarded as a good species, and 
named after its discoverer Dr. Leach, I had for a long time con- 
sidered as merely an immature form of the common herring. It is 
almost the only kind taken in the estuary at the early part of the 
year. I believe it to be the fish of the previous year, spawning for 
the first time. The following brief abstract of a paper read before 
the West jSTorfolk and Lynn 2vatural History Society, will shoAv 
the reasons which I had for discarding it as a species : — 
“ On the specific characters of Leach’s Herring of Yarrell ; ” 
Jan. 18G4. 
“ The occurrence of spawning herrings at the mouths of estuaries 
in the early months of the year, and a certain dissimilarity betwixt 
these and the common herring, led Mr. Yarrell to describe them as 
a new species, under the name of Clupea Leachii. The chief 
