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A PREFATORY note to the “Sketches” tells us that “the subject-matter has, for the most part, been gleaned directly from the waterside, and should be looked upon more as the notes of a naturalist than the jottings of an angler.” Accordingly, it was with anticipation of interest that we turned to the opening chapter, on salmon.
Sketches of British Sporting Fishes.
By John Watson. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1890.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 42, 172 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042172b0
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