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THE interest in folk museums is growing throughout Great Britain. There are those who would like to see immense parks set aside for folk studies on a national scale on the Scandinavian plan, whereas others are content with more regional establishments, even down to a county basis ; but no folk museum of any kind will be of the slightest value unless its collections provoke study and subsequent publication. It is for this reason that a modest little work, “Guide to the Severn Fishery Collections", by J. Neufville Taylor, which has been published by the City of Gloucester Folk Museum, is to be commended, and it is to be hoped there will be many more like it. The various methods used on the River Severn to catch the different fish required will also be of interest to fishermen, even to those who despise all methods except that of the rod, fly and line.
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Ancient Fishing on the River Severn. Nature 164, 691 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164691a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164691a0