APPENDIX. 



4tJt January 1892. 



DEAR SIR, I have yours of 29th ultimo, and enclose 

 a Preliminary Eeport on the Lake of ... Time 

 has not permitted of my personally visiting the Lake, 

 but this is of the less importance, since a full report 

 necessitates the investigation and tabulation of the 

 Mollusca and Crustacea, more especially the Daphniadee 

 Copepoda, and Ostracoda, one species of which, Gandona 

 Candida, forms a large portion of the natural feeding at 

 Howietoun. 



This investigation can only be carried on by boat and 

 in summer, and by the frequency of the various forms 

 of Mollusca and Crustacea, the gross weight of trout the 

 lake can carry is controlled. I must therefore omit the 

 Invertebrate Fauna, and the flora on which the fauna 

 largely depends, from this Preliminary Eeport, and deal 

 with the mode of stocking and question of cost in a 

 general manner, leaving any final recommendations till 

 the completion of the report. Yours sincerely, 



J. -E. G. MAITLAND. 



