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another marked salmon, weighing 9 Ibs., was 

 caught at Kinfauns station; but the fishermen all 

 along not only showed a want of interest in the 

 progress of the experiment, but, in many in- 

 stances, were decidedly hostile to it. 



1856 SECOND MIGKATION OF FEY SPAWNED 1853 

 TO 1854. 



Previous to the migration of the smoults this 

 year, some of those gentlemen who felt an interest 

 in the experiment thought, along with Mr Buist, 

 that, in order to identify the fish on its return from 

 the sea, it was desirable that some substance should 

 be attached to the smoults, so that they should 

 be recognised beyond all doubt on their return. 

 Whatever substance was to be used, it required 

 to be something that salt water would not de- 

 stroy. Many things for marking and methods of 

 attaching them were thought of, but our friend, 

 Alexander Harvey, Esq., Glasgow, sent 300 silver 

 rings, which we had great hopes would answer 

 the purpose. These rings were pointed at one 

 end, and had a loop-eye at the other into which 

 the point end was inserted after being attached 

 to the fish through the fleshy part of the tail 

 the pointed end being doubled back. The 



