NATURAL HISTOEY OF THE SALMON, 



STOBMONTFIELD EXPEEIMENT, 



IN the summer of 1853, the late Dr Esdaile of 

 Perth published a letter, addressed to the salmon 

 fishing proprietors of the Tay, on the artificial 

 propagation of salmon, the result of which was 

 that a meeting of that body was held on the 19th 

 July. Dr Esdaile was present, and stated that 

 his attention had been called to the subject by 

 what had been written by Mr Thomas Ashworth 

 of Poynton, Cheshire, who, along with his brother, 

 Mr Edmund Ashworth, had purchased the Galway 

 salmon fishery in the Court for the sale of encum- 

 bered estates, Ireland, as a several fishery extend- 

 ing from Lough Corrib to the sea. Dr Esdaile then 

 introduced Mr Ashworth to the meeting,* who 

 said he had come to this part of the country to 



* From the Perthshire Courier. 



