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FISHES. 
A Huge Wharfe Trout. — In The Naturalist for 1919, 
p. 150, I gave particulars of two large Wharfe Trout — the 
larger one of which there were neither weight nor measure- 
ments. On May 27th, after a big storm and flood, a huge 
Trout was found dead on the banks of the Wharfe at Starbotton, 
near Kettlewell, by the river watcher of the Kilnsey Angling 
Club, Mr. J. W. Mallinson. He took it to the house of Mr. 
J. C. Marshall, where it was carefully weighed and measured. 
It turned the scales at just over 14 lbs., measured 32 inches 
in length, and 18J inches at its greatest girth. The fish was 
quite dry at the time, and possibly may have shrunk a little, 
both in weight and size. It is amazing how this fish managed 
to attain such a weight and size in a place where the Wharfe 
is but a small stream. I think it will hold the record for a 
long time as the largest Yorkshire river Trout. The weather 
being hot at the time, the fish began to go bad, and was 
buried. I hope at some future time to be able to secure a 
vertebra of it for comparison with the December, 1918, huge 
Ilkley Trout. Mr. H. E. Dewhirst, President of the Kilnsey 
Angling Club, has kindly verified the above facts. — H. B. 
Booth, Ben Rhydding, 
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FUNGI. 
Early abundance of Fungi. — During a visit to Strensall 
Common on July 16th, many fine specimens of Boletus 
scaber Fr. were seen under conifers in a plantation south of 
the Rifle Butts. Associated with this bolete, also in a- 
bundance, was Amanita rubescens Fr., and in smaller numbers 
Cantharellus aurantiacus Fr. — F. A. Mason. 
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E. A. Butler gives a Contnoution to tne Life History of Pentatoma 
rufipes L., and R. C. L. Perkins ‘The British Species of Halictus and 
Sphecodes in The Entomologist’ s Monthly Magazine for July. 
No. 310 of The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 
contains ‘Structure of the South-west Highlands of Scotland,' by E. 
B. Bailey ; ‘ Bala Country : its structure and Rock -succession, ’ by 
Miss G. L. Elies ; ‘ Lower Palaeozoic Rocks of the Llangollen District,’ 
by Dr. L. J. Wills and B. Smith ; and ‘ The Avonian of Broadfield 
Down,’ by F. S. Wallis. 
In The Fellowship Miscellany, Nos. 4 and 5, the editor, Mr. E. A. 
Martin, ‘ earnestly asks menfbers and friends who attend lectures not 
to leave bags, purses, etc., on the chairs and tables.’ He appeals to the 
members to make good the gaps ' caused by the few who drop out each 
year when subscriptions become due.’ He also wants a book-case. He 
calls a Carrion Crow an ‘ avine malefactor and persistent robber of other 
birds’ nests.’ These, and other similarly interesting facts, are placed 
on record in these four-page publications issued by the Gilbert White 
Fellowship. 
1922 Aug.-Sept. 
