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I also examined two salmon taken at Berwick-on-Tweed, at one 
of the Berwick Fisheries Company’s stations, situated in the tide- 
way about one mile from the sea. One of those salmon I received 
from Sir Robert Christison, the other from Mr G. L. Pauline, 
secretary to the Berwick Fisheries Company. Both of those fish 
were affected with fungus, and were injured about the head and fins 
in a similar manner to those taken miles above the tide-way ; the 
fungus also presented all its characteristic features. Both specimens 
were maiden salmon, and in excellent condition. They were both 
cooked, and were partaken of by sixteen persons, twelve of whom 
were fully informed that the fish were affected with fungus, four per- 
sons were not informed until after they had digested it. The former, 
myself included, all say that they knew no difference in either taste, 
colour, or smell from fishmongers’ salmon ; the latter say that I am 
only trying their nerves in saying the fish had fungus disease, as 
they had never eaten better. 
I have also examined two other salmon, both of which were 
maidens. They were both from the Tweed river. One was pre- 
sented to me by Mr Speedie, gamekeeper at the Inch, who saw it in 
a dying state and pushed it out of the river with a stick. This was 
a beautiful salmon, with only a few patches of fungus on its body 
and tail, which were easily rubbed off, leaving only a slight stain 
of a brassy hue where they were seated, and with the scales 
intact. A very large patch was seated within the mouth, involving 
both the upper and lower jaws, the palate and mucous fold in the 
upper part of the mouth, and extending to the gills, which were 
also thickly studded with parasitic crustaceans, from the combined 
effects of which it was dying of suffocation. 
The other salmon was presented to me by Arthur Campbell, Esq., 
Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh. It was captured in the Tweed at 
Maxton. This fish was a maiden salmon, in high condition, and 
exceedingly fat and firm. It was injured about the forehead and 
nostrils from fungus having been seated upon them. The frontal 
bones were exposed, and appeared as if corroded by friction, and the 
skin around this part had begun to slough ; no fungus adhered to 
the bare part of the bone, but the loose skin surrounding it was 
thickly coated with it. There were a number of patches of fungus on 
its body and fins, but no sloughing had taken place under them. I 
