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TROUT-BREEDING 



IT is now fifteen years since Frank Buckland 

 bequeathed his museum of pisciculture to the nation. 

 In connection with the question of re-stocking trout 

 ponds, by other methods than those described in 

 the previous chapter, it is worth inquiring what results 

 have accrued from Frank Buckland's legacy of his 

 museum of pisciculture to the nation. Those who 

 regard the younger Buckland as something more than 

 an agreeable writer on the curiosities of animal life, 

 will be curious to know whether, in the period that 

 has elapsed since his death, the cause which he had 

 most at heart has made any real and effective progress. 

 Fish-culture, in the sense not only of breeding fish 

 from the ova, but of their protection, encouragement, 

 and profitable maintenance in the running streams and 

 lakes of England, was the serious object of Buckland's 

 later years. In its advocacy, he was at once enthusi- 

 astic and practical, and so much before his time in 

 the views he held as to the desirability of rescuing 

 from neglect the productive forces of the water at 

 a time when no expense or trouble was spared on 



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