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MANUFACTURED SOLELY BY WM. BARTLEET AND SONS, 

 ABBEY MILLS, REDDITCH. 



As I mentioned, I have secured a patent for the turn-down 

 eyed hook in America, where the hooks can now be obtained of 

 Mr. Thos. J. Conroy, the principal Fishing Tackle Maker, of 

 New York, of Mr. Charles F. Orvis, Manchester, Vermont, and 

 at other of the more important establishments in different parts 

 of the United States. 



A letter recently published in the Fishing Gazette explains the 

 principle on which the 'new numbering' is based viz.,a correspon- 

 dence between small hooks and low numbers, and large hooks 

 and high numbers. Thus it will be seen the scale ascends from ooo 

 (the smallest), oo, o, i, 2, 3, &c., up to 19, the largest sized salmon 

 hook for which I could find room in the engraving. This last 

 number (19) corresponds with about No. 5/0 of the ordinary 

 Redditch scale ; whilst my ooo is equal to No. 17, and my No. i 

 to No. 14 ' old style' : 



A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF NUMBERING HOOKS. 



The following are copies of letters we have received on this subject : 



From H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, ESQ. 



SIR, I most cordially concur in the Editorial endorsement of the sug- 

 gestion made by your correspondents, "F.R.C.S." and " M.R.C.S.," as to 

 the present state of " intolerable confusion" that reigns in regard to the 

 numbering of hooks. It also appears to me that the system suggested by you 

 of counting upwards from ooo, oo, o, i, 2, 3, &c., right on to the largest 



