Agricultural news . ins in the flesh of the fishafter death, due to decomposition. (2) Poisoning by inoculation of venom through woundsinflicted by the fish. Coming under the heading of (a) are the Barracoutas,certain sprats, the parrot fishes, the horse-eye -Jack, thedrunken or plate fish, and the globe and porcupine degree to which, and the conditions under which, thesefishes are poisonous vary. Under (b) most fish come that are consumed as food,but the Cravalles appear to be specially dangerous in thisrespect. The second chief group, which is poisonous by means ofvenomous wounds,
Agricultural news . ins in the flesh of the fishafter death, due to decomposition. (2) Poisoning by inoculation of venom through woundsinflicted by the fish. Coming under the heading of (a) are the Barracoutas,certain sprats, the parrot fishes, the horse-eye -Jack, thedrunken or plate fish, and the globe and porcupine degree to which, and the conditions under which, thesefishes are poisonous vary. Under (b) most fish come that are consumed as food,but the Cravalles appear to be specially dangerous in thisrespect. The second chief group, which is poisonous by means ofvenomous wounds, is represented by the scorpion or Lionfish, the morays or tropical eels, and the batrachus. Thereare other forms of marine life, not belonging to the truefishes, which may also be included—for example, the sea-eggand the Portuguese man owar. The article gives an account of the symp;omi of poisoningfrom these causes, and of the treatment thtt has beeaijuecessfully adopted. ISiS THh AGKiCCLTUKAL NEWb 3vsE 16. In the East Africa Protectorate coco-nut planting, saysthe Bulletin of the Imperial Institute (\ol. XIV, No. 4), i*the chief industry on the coast-lands and is likely to remainso. Native plantations, it is stated, are in a very unsatis-factory state owing tcp tapping of tiie palm, and to the attacksof Oryctes beetles und fires The copra produced appears tobe of a somewhat inferior quality that could easily beimproved with a little more care and attention. GLEANINGS In the last issue of the Aijnciiltma/ Neii:s a mistake wasniade in stating that observations showing the number ofdays on which rain falls is only a newly introduced featureinto the St. Lucia meteorological St. Lucia happensto be one of a very few islands where this observation hasbeen systematically carried on for inttny years past. Trap;ml Life for April 1917 contains a biographicalstatement of the career and present work of Mr. F. W. South,Chief Agricultural Inspector, Department of Agricult
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