having been, in nautical language, "stove in." I have on two or three occasions found this feature displayed in the Gadidæ, in which the deformity amounts to positive ugliness.
I am indebted to my friend Mr. C. Rumbold, an amateur photographer living in this town, for the photograph from which the accompanying illustration has been taken. A normal specimen has been introduced to show the contrast. The fish is now in the Cambridge Museum.—Arthur Patterson (Ibis House, Great Yarmouth).
[Besides the above interesting record relating to the Gurnard, in Mr. Bateson's 'Materials for the Study of Variation,' pp. 57–8, will be found instances of the "bull-dog" variety in the Carp, Chub, Minnow, Pike, Mullet, Salmon, and Trout."— Ed.]
CRUSTACEA.
A Gigantic Lobster.— Some of our daily papers having published the statement that the New York Aquarium contained the largest Lobster in the world, the Editor wrote to the Director of that institution, who has kindly supplied the following note on the subject:—
