INDEX. 



ABERDEEN and Kincardine, Fixed 

 engines on coast of, 129. 



Aborigines of Borders did not use 

 fish, 3. 



Acclimatization of fish, 222. 



Acts (ancient) before and after Magna 

 Charta, 135. 



Acts, Repeal of thirty-three old, 174. 



A damson (Rev. W. Agar), Paper by, 

 quoted, 89-90. 



Adventures of a Tweed salmon, 230 



Age when parr assumes appearances 

 and habits of smolt, 40. 



Allusions to angling by British Poets, 

 25-27. 



Aln, Bull-trout in, 71. 



America (North), Abundance of sal- 

 mon in, 6. 



American rivers, Depopulation of, 89. 



Angler versus Butcher, 19-23. 



Angler for salmon in the Tweed de- 

 scribed, 15-17. 



Anglers good men, 24. 



Angling, Charms of, 17. 



Anomalies (apparent) not to inter- 

 fere with settlement of period of 

 migration, 44. 



Anthony competing with Cleopatra as 

 an angler, 29. 



Apprentices, Clause in indentures of, 

 94, 95. 



Argyle's (Duke of) Bill in 1851, 146. 



Artificial introduction of salmon, 

 Reasons for, 223, 224. 



Ascent of smolt, Period of, 53. 



Ashworth's (Mr.) operations on rais- 

 ing salmon in Galway, 226. 



" Assisted passage" supposed to pro- 

 mote growth, 50. 



Assumptions in books of naturalists, 

 61. 



Atmosphere, Poisoning of, taken cog- 

 nisance of by law, 212. 



BAKER'S wife and Candide, 59. 

 "Bar-nets" prohibited at mouth of 



Tweed, 126. 



Beauly fisheries affected by fixed en- 

 gines, 129, 130. 

 Beauly and Ness, Private Bill for, in 



1860, 165 ; period for fishing now 



allowed, 171. 

 Beginning of season varies in rivers, 



118. 

 Berners (Dame Julyaua), Prioress of 



St. Albans, 24. 

 Berwick, Boxes of salmon sent from, 



100. 

 Bill of 1857 on Tweed fisheries, 153 ; 



its main object, 157 ; of 1859, 155. 

 Bill of 1861, Lord Advocate's, 166 ; 



how treated by Select Committee, 



167. 



Bill of 1861 for England passed, 173. 

 Bill of 1862, Lord Advocate's, 168, 



169. 

 Bill of 1863 regulating exportation of 



salmon, 176. 





