2K> PROCEEDINGS OE THE SGIENTEFIG ASSOCIATION. 
Monday , 7 th September, 1868. 
The Association met at La Falaise, San Fernando, by the 
hind invitation of John Percy, Esq., M.R.C.S.I. 
Robert Guppy, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 
The Hon. John Imray, M.D., of Dominica, was elected a 
Member; and Thomas Bland, Esq., F.G.S., 42, Pine Street, 
Hew- York, was elected a Corresponding Member. 
The following communication was read : — 
On Poisonous Fishes. 
By the Hon. Richard Hill, Corresponding Member. 
The fishes most generally known in the Caribean Sea as 
either hurtful or dangerous as food are the following'* 4 : — 
Gymnothorax rostratus. 
Coryphsena dorado. 
Pagellus calamus. 
Serranus arara. 
S ...... nigriculus. 
S catus. 
•Sphyrsena baracuda. 
Scorpcena grandicornis. 
Thynnus coretta. 
Oybium (Solandri ?) Guarapucu. 
C regale. 
Scarus cseruleus. 
Alosa Bishopi. 
Fortunately of all the above list of our fishes, the Clupea 
thryssa, as the Alosa Bishopi is sometimes called, or the 
yellow-tailed sprat, is the only one at all times dangerous. 
* I published notes on the Poisonous Fishes of the West-Indies 
in a Jamaica journal, and they were re-published in the Technologist . 
