BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 83 



A Scotch View of our Methods. — The great superiority of the 

 exhibit made by the United States Fish Commission at the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Exhibition held in London in 1883, and the profound 

 impression which the explanations of its methods and purposes of fish- 

 culture produced upon European fish-culturists, induced the Scottish 

 fishery board to send to the United States Prof. J. Cossar Ewart, one of 

 its members, for the purpose of becoming practically acquainted with 

 the systems in use in this country. 



Professor Ewart succeeded Sir Wyville Thompson, the scientific head 

 of the Challenger expedition, as professor of zoology in the University 

 of Edinburgh, and is himself highly distinguished as an investigator. 

 Every facility was afforded Professor Ewart in the examination of the 

 various stations of the United States Fish Commission, and the follow- 

 ing letter was written by him just before leaving New York to return 

 to Edinburgh. He expects to revisit the United States next year in 

 time to study the operations in the hatching of shad and fresh-water 

 herring. 



Under date of New York, November 5, 1884, writing to Professor 

 Baird, he says : 



"I have just returned from visiting all the stations you suggested, 

 with the exception of Northville. I feel very grateful for the facilities 

 given me to study the work of the Fish Commission. From what I 

 have seen I am convinced that Scotland in doing her little has done 

 best to follow in your footsteps, and that although your Commission 

 has accomplished much already it is in reality only beginning its work, 

 a work which will be of immense national importance. There is no 

 doubt that fish-culture has a splendid future if carried on, as it has been 

 by your Commission, in a truly scientific spirit. When I saw Wood's 

 Holl, with its great facilities, I felt that I might confidently return to 

 Scotland and advise the board of fisheries to devote all the means at 

 its disposal to improving by artificial means the sea fisheries. I am ex- 

 tremely grateful for your kindness, and for the courtesy extended to 

 me by all the officers of the Commission and others it has been my 

 privilege to meet." 



The Howietoun Hatchery in Scotland.— One of the most suc- 

 cessful private fish-cultural establishments in Great Britain is that 

 known as the " Howietoun Fishery," and owned by Sir James Gibson 

 Maitland, of Stirling, Scotland. At the International Fisheries Exhi- 

 bition in Edinburgh, in 1882, he received a gold medal for fish-cultural 

 apparatus and a silver medal for live salmonidai. The Societe W Accli- 

 matation of Paris has also awarded him its gold medal. 



Upwards of 10,000,000 of trout ova are now annually incubated at the 

 hatchery. Last year 90,000 yearling trout were delivered to all parts of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. Two consignments of trout ova and one of 

 salmon ova were forwarded to New Zealand successfully. Y r earlings are 

 recommended to its customers as the size for general purposes. They are 



