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The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. 
Sir JAMES G. MAITLAND, in reply, said that he was very 
glad that his Paper had elicited remarks from the repre- 
sentatives of America and Canada, both of which countries 
were pre-eminently known for fish culture. He could not 
say that he agreed with all the remarks that had been made. 
Fishing was a very old art; fish had been caught ever 
since man went out in a coracle, but fish culture was still 
very young, and it would be expecting a great deal to 
expect Parliament to change legislation in a moment before 
this art had had time to approve itself to the nation. He 
quite agreed with the opinion expressed by Mr. Brady that 
so long as there was any doubt, they should not legislate. 
With regard to his hybrid experiments, they were yet too 
young to say exactly what might come of them, but they 
showed peculiar forms in scaling, and perhaps might help 
towards connecting different species of Salmonidz and re- 
ducing them down to one or two species, the others being 
merely varieties. He was much obliged to Mr. Wilmot 
for his remarks on land-locked Salmon; but having had 
some experience on lakes in Scotland where Salmon had 
been bred and had not gone into the sea, he had found 
invariably that where there were no Char in the lake the 
Salmon had become very large in the head, and seldom 
exceeded four or five pounds in weight. On the other 
hand, some nine years ago he got a few eggs of the Leuvi 
Trout from the late Mr. Buckland, and turned about one 
hundred and fifty into a small piece of water a little over 
one hundred acres, which contained nothing but small 
Perch. Last Friday a gentleman brought him one of these 
fish, which he had found washed ashore, which must have 
been just nine years old; it measured 334 inches, but was 
in very bad condition. The Trout when put under con- 
