To the Editor of the *Norru-Cuina Day News.'
Sin,—With reference to Sir Edward Po letter, and photograph of a "baby" shark (or dog-fsh)
pearing in your issue of the 6th stant, it may be of interest to him, or to Mr de Sowerby, to know that fish of the particular type referred to are caught frequently in the waters surrounding the Shantung Promontory to the southward of Weihaiwei.
On an inspection trip in 1922 1 saw many of them, and at Shihtao (near the South-east Promontory Lighthouse) which is a very lari fishing centre, I saw about a hundred of them in various sizes on the fish market and in the fish "hangs," and tat least a dozen of them measured quite five feet.
Should either Sir Edward Pearce, or Mr, de Sowerby, wish to obtain further specimens, to dete mine whether these fishes are sharks or not, they will have no iMculty in obtaining them at Shihtuo.
The Chinese at Shihtao told me that these fishes wore sharks, Tam, etc, 'A, J.'H. Coney. Tehang, Oct. 26, 1925.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.