SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE HATCHING 

 OF FISH.* 



WE have done something, we hope, to interest our 

 readers in the very important question, How is animal 

 food to be provided for the rapidly-augmenting popula- 

 tion of the British Islands ? We have pointed out that, 

 in the ocean by which they are surrounded, and in the 

 lakes, rivers, and canals by which they are intersected, 

 bountiful nature has provided for all her children ali- 

 mentary substances of the greatest value, and to an 

 extent which, without exaggeration, may be pronounced 

 inexhaustible. Let human beings be multiplied in such 

 myriads as to horrify Malthusians, our " cheerful faith" 

 is that the great Father has made the fish-pond of the 

 seas and rivers bear such a proportion to the families to 

 which He has given u the dry land" as their dwelling 

 and harvest-field, that food shall not fail, provided 

 advancing intelligence and industry be unceasingly ap- 

 plied to the solution of the increasingly intricate pro- 

 blems of our social life. This proviso being attended 

 to, we may hope for something better than was prayed 

 for by the benevolent King of France, who wished that 



* 'Fish Hatching.' By Frank T. Buckland, M.A., M.R.C.S., 

 F.Z.S., Student of Christ's Church, Oxford, and late Assistant- 

 Surgeon, Second Regiment of Life Guards. London: Tinsley 

 Brothers. 1863. 



