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MR. McLACHLAN's opinion that fish suffer comparatively little injury when inclosed for lengthened periods in solid ice is fully borne out by an occurrence here in the year 1873. In the early part of the month of July a boy was seriously ill in one of the large boarding-houses; ice-bags had to be applied to his head; the ice was procured from the ice-house, which had been filled in the previous December from a pond in the neighbourhood. On pouring off the water from one of the bags after it had been used, a small fish was seen swimming merrily about. My informant (the master of the house in which the boy lay ill) tells me “the fish was very small, and so transparent that a large portion of its internal organization was clearly visible”; he thinks it was minnow, but is doubtful as to the accuracy of the opinion. At all events we have here a well-authenticated case of a fish surviving inclosure in solid ice for a period of between six and seven months.
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LATTER, O. Frozen Fish. Nature 43, 464 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043464c0
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