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fry ; and the special thanks, not only of the Directors, but also of 

 the Association, are due to him." This accounts for more ova than 

 Middlethird would hold. As a matter of fact, only 62,500 ova 

 (S. levenensis) were laid down in Middlethird ; but the same 

 number of S. levenensis were laid down in the Howietoun hatch- 

 ing-house also, and the Association got all the ova and fry, except 

 about 20,000, which were retained for the Fishery. Thus 108,500 

 out of 125,000 S. levenensis ova are accounted for, showing a loss 

 of a little over 1 3 per cent. As the water in the hatching-house 

 at Howietoun was occasionally very dirty, in spite of the filter, 

 and as the boxes were exposed to a great range of temperature, 

 and specially as I was on the Continent nearly all winter, and 

 the care of the eggs was committed to men, however anxious, 

 with little or no previous training, I think the result was fairly 

 satisfactory. Afterwards no accommodation could be provided for 

 the S.fario fry, and they were used to stock my own waters at 

 Sauchie. The S. fario spawn were obtained by running the dam 

 at Craigend dry. This I did on November 15th, and got 98 trout, 

 averaging three-quarters of a Ib. each. On that day I spawned 45, 

 of which 25 were females; on the 16th I spawned 18 more, and 

 on the 23d I stripped the remainder. All the fish were returned 

 to the dam without injury. 



On my journey down from London two nights before, when 

 nearing Sheffield, at five minutes to 1 A.M., November 22d, the 

 Pullman car in which I was travelling upset at Healy, and I was 

 pitched into the lamps. I was not much hurt, only cut a little, 

 and the skin knocked off my knees. I shot the Sauchie covers on 

 arriving home, and, beyond limping when I walked, was none the 

 worse. A day or two afterwards I was much amused by a stranger 

 calling. For some time I could not guess the purport of his visit ; 

 but at last he referred to the accident. Then it dawned on me that 

 the Railway Company were counting up the cost, and I at once 

 relieved his feelings by assuring him that I never saw things better 

 arranged after the smash, which I said with all the more emphasis 

 as, shortly before, I had some experience of a break-down in France, 

 when the delay was much more inconvenient than the accident. 



