. A history of the Dove family : and their descendants in connection with Cullercoats, Northumberland. en considered a Crustacean rare in thedistrict, was now landed in numbers from the trawlers. Nejjh-rops nori-egicus, the NorAvay lobster, locally the prawn, hasbeen well known in the Tyneside region since that time. It iscaught by the steam trawlers in large quantities on the softground oif the coast. AVe have found it convenient to makeNephrops our type of Crustacea for the first years course inZoology at Armstrong College instead of the fresh water cray-fish. In vol. vi. (1863-4) the Rev. G
. A history of the Dove family : and their descendants in connection with Cullercoats, Northumberland. en considered a Crustacean rare in thedistrict, was now landed in numbers from the trawlers. Nejjh-rops nori-egicus, the NorAvay lobster, locally the prawn, hasbeen well known in the Tyneside region since that time. It iscaught by the steam trawlers in large quantities on the softground oif the coast. AVe have found it convenient to makeNephrops our type of Crustacea for the first years course inZoology at Armstrong College instead of the fresh water cray-fish. In vol. vi. (1863-4) the Rev. G. C. Abbes contributed a paperdrawing attention to the complaints the fishermen were makingas to the effects of : The Transactions (vol. vi.) con- * Hist. Berwh. Nat. Club, vol. iv., pj). 213-4. t Presidents Address, Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc. and Field Club. X See also the Reports of the Royal Commissions which were appointed toenquire as to the state of the sea fisheries of the country, and which considerevidenCe relating to Cullercoats; and The County Hist(yry of Northumhorland,vol. G5 tain a paper by the Rev. li. F. Wheeler, vicar of Whitley,on The English Sea Fisheries, and J. F. Spence and Gr. both refer to the subject in their presidential addressesto the Club. In vol. viii. an account is given of shrimping,which then took place in the Tyne in the neighbourhood ofNewcastle, and even higher up the river. In June, 1884, a shoal of small tunnies came off the of them were caught in the salmon nets of the Cullercoatsfishermen. They were only got during one night. A largeexample was caught in a salmon net at Frenchmans Bay inthe following year. In 1890 Howse contributed a catalogue of the Fishes ofNorthumberland and Durham, and an appendix thereto in thesucceeding volume. Another naturalist of the same period is referred to in theTransactions of the Field Cliih, vol. iv. (1858-()()) at pp. 198 and;i21—Arthur Scott Donkin, (died 188:^.). He
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