208 FISH HATCHING. 



and the public in general,* for they have 

 appointed a fish-culture committee of which 

 I have the honour to be one of the 

 members, and for the last three years we 

 have been hatching and turning fish into 

 the Thames, both from the out-door boxes 

 and also Mr. Ponder's apparatus. In order 

 that the reader shall see the latest results, I 

 give from official returns the results of the fish- 

 hatching of the season ending May, 1863 : 



NUMBER OF FISH TURNED OUT INTO THE 

 THAMES. 



Rhine Salmon. . . 6000 



English Trout. . . 22000 



French Trout. . . 2000 



Ombre Chevalier (Charr). 3000 



Grayling. . . . 2000 



In all . . . 35,000 



* Anglers in the Thames should recollect this, and by their 

 subscriptions enable the Society to carry out fish hatching next 

 year even, it is hoped, on a larger scale than this year. 



