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SOME months ago I inquired through the columns of the Field newspaper if any sportsman, fisherman, or naturalist would oblige me by replying to the following queries respecting the rarer Salmonidæ of Great Britam. Firstly, whether Salmo ferox (the great lake trout) had ever been taken in any lake in Wales, and, secondly, whether any of the Gwiniad tribe (Coregoni), such as the Gwiniad of Bala, the Vendace of Loch Maben, and the Powan of Ireland; or any of the Chars (Salmo salvelinus) have ever been taken in any lake which is not a glacial lake—that is to say, a lake which either lies in the tracks of an ancient glacier, or that is dammed up, or otherwise surrounded by moraine matter? The only reply with respect to the first query was from Sir Philip Egerton, to the purpose that he took a specimen of Salmo ferox in Bala Lake in 1871, thus establishing the fact that this fish still lingers in North Wales. To the second question I have received no reply. Is it possible that I may be more fortunate among the many naturalists and geologists who take NATURE?
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SYMONDS, W. Salmonidæ of Great Britain. Nature 7, 162 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007162b0
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