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perfectly fresh, the lobster is attracted by that which is hung up 
to become tainted, or has been preserved by salting. Some other 
particulars of this fishery are given when speaking of the 
common crab.” 
Upon the authority of Mr. J. E. Saunders, the respectable fish 
salesman of Thamos-street, Mr. Bell says, that often during the 
season the supply at Billingsgate is not less than 20,000 to 25,000 
lobsters in one day. Most of these come from Norway, from 
whence the supply is not less than 600,000. It is computed, 
moreover, that not less than 150,000 reach London from Scotland 
and the neighbouring islands. 
During the Commission which has recently been held in Devon 
and Cornwall, it is quite clear that the apparent scarcity is due 
to the increased number of fishermen, and the division of the 
produce of the fishery among so many. 
8tiU, however, from increasing population, the demand is 
gradually becoming greater than the supply. 1 1 would therefore 
be desirable as much as possible to discourage the destruction of 
lobsters while bearing spawn. The loss of one lobster in berry 
is the destruction of some 60,000 to 100,000 young animals of 
the same kind. 
In Bell’s Crustacea I observe that he is indebted to Mr. Couch 
for the following paragraph — speaking of the opinion that the 
antennm are thrown off at wiU or from injury,— I have not 
found this to be the fact ; but subjecting the parts to blows or 
fracture, both in short and long-tailed Crustacea, I have found the 
creature suffering acutely from the injury, most so when just 
emerged from the water ; but in no case have they rejected the 
whole organ in consequence of the violence. If, however, it be 
■violently handled, a separation takes place at the terminal joint 
cf the peduncles in preference to any other place ; and from this 
t'^ound no stream of blood flows, but a fine membrane quickly 
forms on the surface, by which all effusion is prevented. 
When the antennas is reproduced it is curved in a spiral form 
within a saccular case, and becomes extended when the animal 
ffirows off its external covering in the next natural period of 
^loulting. 
On the same animal Mr. BeU gives the following statement on 
fte authority of Mr. Peach : — 
