INTRODUCTORY. 



It will be noticed that the oldest salmon those in pond 10 

 are now five years and a half; they are much dwarfed, the largest 

 being probably not over 3 Ibs. ; but the young salmon fry in pond 

 23, reared from the eggs obtained from these fish last winter, have 

 thriven better, and are much larger than the salmon fry in pond 3, 

 hatched from eggs obtained from the river Tay. From this it 

 seems probable that the second generation of landlocked salmon 

 will thrive better, and attain a larger size, than the direct produce 

 of wild fish. Should this turn out to be the case, their ova would 

 prove more valuable than the ova of wild fish for stocking the 

 waters of the antipodes, since they would be easily retained in 

 fresh water until they multiplied sufficiently to overcome, by sheer 

 numbers, the dangers of an antipodal andromadous existence. 



