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Rh receive the royal assent. It has not, however, been of a kind that needed any action on the part of your Committee.

In view of any proceedings which may be taken in the session of 1879 in regard to the recommendations of the Scottish Herring Fishery Commissioners already recited, as well as on general grounds, your Committee respectfully urges its reappointment.

Once only does Shakspeare mention the Rhinoceros, and then apparently only for the purpose of illustrating a most formidable opponent, for Macbeth, speaking to the ghost of Banquo, exclaims —

Until the extinction of the wild boar in Britain, probably during the seventeenth century, boar-hunting was considered royal sport. From the spirited descriptions given by Shakspeare (who mentions the wild boar upwards of thirty times), it would appear that the poet had himself joined in the chase: —

The flesh of wild boars was considered a great delicacy, and, from the difficulty of procuring it, an expensive dish. Can we