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other collectors and becomes an authority upon this or that 
group. Hence entomology has come to be looked upon 
rather as a pastime than as a serious branch of biology. 
More recently, however, the importance of the study of 
the life-histories of injurious insects with a view to their 
destruction, and the discovery of the connection between 
insects and certain human diseases, has brought trained 
biologists into the field and the bionomics of insect life has 
become important. Such work, therefore, as I have under- 
taken, although neither economical nor medical, is intended 
as an entomological contribution towards Biology, since it is 
an endeavour to trace the relationship between an organism, 
in this case an insect, and its environment. 
XI. 
NOTES ON THE HERRING FISHERY OF 1905. 
By T. J. Wigg, 
Honorary Secretary Great Yarmouth Section. 
Read 2/th February, 1906. 
With the advent of brown October opens the greatest of all 
events in the life of the old town of Yarmouth, namely, the 
commencement of the great harvest of the sea, the Herring 
Fishery. 
Reports were to hand from the North of a considerable 
shortage in the number of Herrings caught, owing to the bad 
weather, calms, and fogs on the East coast of Scotland. 
Off Yarmouth, the fishing started this year with stormy 
