163 
HUSO. 
Huso, Wir-totFGTlBY; p. 248, tab. p. 7. 
Aci'genseT huso, IiiNN.®us. Cuvier. Blocii, pi. 129. 
We introduced the name of this species into our pages, 
because we woidd direct the attention of British naturalists to 
the possibility of its occurrence in our waters, and in the 
hope that on the report of the capture of an example of 
what might pass as the common species, an examination may 
be made, whether in fact it may not be an example of this, 
as yet questionable species. It stands on the list of Irish 
fishes, as having more than once been met with in that 
country; and so much as is known of these rcjiorted cap- 
tures, is given in the fourth volume of Mr. M^illiam Ihompson s 
“Natural History of Ireland;” but unfortunately no figure 
or particular description appear to have been taken from the 
fishes themselves. The following is all that Mr. Thompson 
says on the subject; — 
“In 1847 I contributed the following note to the ‘Annals 
of Natural History,’ vol. xx ‘Isinglass Sturgeon, Acipenser 
huso, Liniiffius.) A notice of the occurrence of this species 
on the coast of Cork, in July, 1845, was communicated to 
the ‘Annals,’ (vol. xvi, p. 213,) by Mr. John Humphreys, of 
the city of that name. This gentleman, as well as Di . Harvey, 
of Cork, who subsequently examined the specimen, assures me 
that it was A. huso, as represented in Shaw’s ‘Zoology,’ vol. 
V, p. 159- Mr. Humphreys has informed me of the capture 
of another specimen, which was taken in the second week of 
April, 1847, at Carrigeen, near Curriglass, on the Kiver 
Bride", not far from its junction with the Blackwater. It 
measured seven feet eight inches in length, and weighed 
nearly two hundredweight.” 
Shaw’s description of this species is as folloivs:— “Isinglass 
