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NOTES ON THE CONTENTS OF THE STOMACHS OF 
HERRING AND HADDOCKS. By Tuomas Scorrt. 
In the following tables are given the results of the examination of a 
number of herring’s and haddock’s stomachs which had been sent to the 
Central Laboratory, from various localities, by officers of the Fishery 
Board. 
A good deal of the material was almost useless, partly from overcrowding 
of the specimens and partly from bad preservation. -Unless the spirit be 
frequently renewed the more delicate forms become more or less decom- 
posed, and much more difficult to identify. In many instances, indeed, 
the whole of the contents, excepting such hard structures as the shells of 
Molluscs, the plates and tests of Echinoderms, and the limbs and other 
hard parts of Crustaceans, are destroyed and entirely useless for purposes 
of identification. 
Herrings Stomachs. 
In the following table the results of the examination of the stomachs 
of 164 herrings are given :— 
