60 Bkeedikg Salmon and Trout. 



17th February, 1899. 



Rev. John Caienp, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Donations and Exchanges. — Some Questions of Nomenclature, 

 by Theodore Gill ; An Account of the Work of the Surveys of Egypt 

 and of the Egyptian Institute during 1892-3-4, by J. de Morgan; 

 Bows and Arrows in Central Brazil, by Hermann Meyer ; Prelimi- 

 nary Account of an Expedition to the Pueblo Ruins, near 

 Winslow, Arizona, by J. Walker Tewkes ; Was Primitive Man a 

 Modern Savage ? by Talcott Williams. 



Communication. 



Observations and Experiences of the Breeding of Salmon and 

 Trout. By Rev. H. G. J. Veitch of Eliock. 



Away from home, in a lodging on a high cliff overlooking Tor 

 Bay, with a fierce north-east wind raging' across the sea and 

 whistling through the ill-fittiug windows of our room, without 

 books or any notes of my experiments and difficulties in rearing 

 salmon and trout from the egg, it is impossible for me to do more 

 than write a chatty sort of sketch on the subject. 



I had thought my first paper to your Society might have had 

 the same effect upon you that the first sermon of a certain English 

 bishop had upon his diocese. He used to tell the story with a 

 twinkle of his eye. " When I first came into the diocese I was 

 asked to preach at a great function in the Cathedral. I told the 

 Dean that I had very little voice, and was by no means a good 

 preacher. But they would have me preach, and so I did. The 

 result was what I expected. All the week after my famous ser- 

 mon the people went about telling one another that they could 

 not hear a word I said, and that they hoped never to hear me 

 preach again ; and they never did. So I was able to give my 

 whole attention to the business of the diocese, and have been able 

 to introduce many first-rate preachers into it." However, as you 

 have given such a cordial reception to my last paper, I feel that it 

 would be impossible for me to refuse the request which I have 

 received for another. 



The breeding of salmon and trout is a subject which must 

 before long be seriously taken in hand, unless our fisheries are to 



