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the spawning season, as the former are apt to discharge their 

 milt, and thus affect the water. Circular D. Fischer ei-Ve- 

 rein, 1873, VII., 246. 



STOCKING A POND IN UTAH WITH EELS. 



A. P. Rockwood, a fish-culturist in Utah, placed five hun- 

 dred silver eels, received from the East, in Zion's Co-operative 

 Fish Pond, in Salt Lake County. This discharges into a trib- 

 utary of the Jordan River, which connects Utah Lake with 

 Great Salt Lake. The Utah papers announce the capture, on 

 the 12th of August last, at the mouth of the Provo River, 

 of an eel two feet in length, and weighing one pound seven 

 ounces, which is supposed to be one of the stock referred to. 



DESTRUCTION OF FISH ON THE OREGON COAST BY NITRO- 

 GLYCERINE. 



Mr. A. W. Chase communicates an interesting fact in con- 

 nection with an account of the destruction of fish on the 

 Oregon coast by means of the explosion of nitro-glycerine. 

 In this he remarks that some of the fish are killed outright 

 by this explosion, while others appear to be simply stunned, 

 and that in several instances, after having fish, apparently 

 dead for half an hour, scaled, the intestines taken out, and 

 prepared for cooking (the head, however, remaining on the 

 body), they began to flop around as briskly as if just taken 

 from the water. 



STERLET FROM ST. PETERSBURG AT THE BRIGHTON AQUARIUM. 



An interesting occurrence to British fish-culturists took 

 place in the arrival at the Brighton Aquarium, on the 16th 

 of September, of nine living sterlets from St. Petersburg, 

 brought by the British steamer Dwina. These were taken 

 in the Volga River, and brought in the well of a boat four- 

 teen hundred miles to St. Petersburg. The sterlet is a small 

 species of sturgeon, very much prized in Russia, where it is 

 considered superior even to the turbot. Its introduction into 

 the waters of the United States has been proposed, and it is 

 probable that the subject will receive due attention from the 

 authorities. 2 A, September 26, 1874, 243. 



