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I WAS very sorry to find from Mr. Dunn's letter (p. 511) that I had not reported his evidence on the occurrence of young pilchards with perfect accuracy. He admits that the misunderstanding was probably not altogether my fault. It seems that in the days before the railway existed in Cornwall, and when seines were largely used at Mevagissey for the capture of pilchards, small pilchards under 8 inches in length, of the same size as French sardines, were often taken in vast numbers, but were either allowed to escape, or used only as manure. The sentence in my article, therefore, which states that Mr. Dunn had never seen such pilchards must be corrected, and I make the correction most willingly, regretting that I should have unconsciously misrepresented Mr. Dunn's statement.
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CUNNINGHAM, J. Pilchards. Nature 45, 558 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045558a0
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