256 APPENDIX. 



by my friend tlie Eev. Cyril Page, and can be 

 obtained of Mr. Gr. King, aquarium dealer, 190, 

 Portland Poad. 



Fig. 4 represents a net made of common wire, 

 and the material the Ladies call " net." It will be 

 found useful to catcli the young fish. This in-door 

 apparatus can be fixed up almost anywhere under 

 cover, except in a hot greenhouse. It will be found 

 much easier of management than the out-door ap- 

 paratus. 



GRAYLING IN SCOTLAND. 

 Page 202. 



I here give an extract from the diary of " The 

 Field Crew on the Clyde,' ^* of which I formed one, 

 written by my excellent friend, J. Lowe, Esq., " the 

 chronicler.'' 



" Up to a very recent period the waters of the 

 Upper Clyde have presented nothing tempting to 

 the angler but the trout. JN^ow, however (thanks 

 to the success of this experiment in acclimatisa- 

 tion), they ofi'er abundance of grayling ; and from 

 their superabundance are being drawn the stocks 

 which are enriching the other fishing waters of 

 Scotland." 



Mr. Piscator's account of the experiments was 

 highly interesting. The first was made in Decem- 

 ber, 1855, when three dozen fish were brought by 

 rail from Powsley, Derbyshire, in the first Eyre's 

 fish-carrier ever used. Mr. Piscator described with 

 enthusiasm the exultation with which their almost 

 unhoped-for safe arrival was greeted, and the de- 

 light which he experienced when, with his own 



* See "The Field," Nov. 24, 1860. 



