PREFACE. 9 



by Andrew Buist, Esq., the present tacksman 

 of Mr Ashworth's Galway Fishings, who, while 

 the experiment was carrying on at Stbrmont- 

 field, hatched the ova of salmon in a run 

 of spring water at a steady temperature of 44 

 degrees F., in fifty days spawned 18th January, 

 hatched 9th March. Also by C. F. Walsh, Esq., 

 Dundee (late of Perth), who was present at most 

 of the operations which he so graphically described 

 in the columns of the Field newspaper. 



The descriptions given of the various processes 

 are from notes taken on the spot by the writer; 

 and as the notices of the Stormontfield experi- 

 ment, which have been already published, are 

 chiefly confined to paragraphs in newspapers, the 

 reports before the British Association, etc., ,he 

 sincerely trusts that the following Work will prove 

 acceptable to the public, and at the same time 

 tend to throw some farther light on the Natural 

 History of the Salmon. 



CROFT COTTAGE, 

 PERTH, June, 1862, 



