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advocated the appointment of a Committee, which should (1)
collect details as to the exact work already accomplished, (2)
circulate printed matter making the aims and methods of the
surveys widely known, (3) endeavour to co-ordinate the
photographic societies on the one hand, and the literary and
scientific societies on the other, so that all may unite in the work
of the survey, (4) obtain lists of experts willing to advise on
details of the work, and (5) secure the publication of series
of prints dealing with either districts or subjects.
The delegates who were present warmly supported Mr.
Harrison's project, and it was proposed to secure, if possible, at
next year's meeting of the British Association at Leicester, the
appointment of a County Photographic Committee. It may be
noted that in the course of the discussion Dr. H. H. Turner,
F.R.S., professor of astronomy in the University of Oxford,
pointed out the desirability of taking photographs on stereographic
principles, for use in making a ground-plan of the objects
photographed as explained in the Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society for December, 1901, p. 126.
SEA BREAM IN ESSEX WATERS.
By JAMES MURIE, M.D., LL.D., F.L.S.
SO far as I am aware there is no record of the Sea-Bream
(Pagellus centrodontus) having been met with strictly within
Essex waters. Dr. Laver does not mention it in The
Mammals, Reptiles and Fishes of Essex,1 or in his additions since
in the Victoria History, Vol. I.
Neither to my knowledge is it included in any of Mr. E. A.
Fitch's lists of captures in his various notes in several volumes
of the Essex Naturalist. The above two naturalists being
reliable authorities on our local fish-fauna, their silence doubtless
betokens absence of information thereon. I have, however, been
fortunate enough to obtain a true Essex example, inasmuch as it
was obtained within half a mile of low-water mark.
The fish in question was caught by one of our Leigh white-
baiters, Harry Johnson (best known by nickname—"Roughy"),
on 5th November last (1906). He and his mate were then
using the stow-net, between the Crow Stone and the end of
1 Special Memoirs of Essex Field Club, Vol. III.