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Professor HUXLEY said Mr. Wilmot's remarks were very 

 interesting and important ; but there was one observation 

 which it was necessary to make in regard to them. There 

 was extremely good evidence that the salmon disease not 

 only occurred, but devastated the fish in British Columbia 

 and Northern Asia, where he need not say there was no 

 possibility either of over-fishing or pollution. 



The Marquis of EXETER then proposed a vote of thanks 

 to Professor Huxley, and in doing so wished to refer to 

 one or two points in connection with this fungus. He found 

 in his own tanks and ponds, whenever they were exposed 

 very much to the sun and intense light, the fungus had ap- 

 peared more or less ; he also found that in breeding salmon 

 from some eggs sent from Canada he succeeded in raising 

 the salmon, and they lived for about six weeks, and were 

 apparently very healthy ; but all at once this fungus began 

 to show upon them, and, though they changed the water, 

 nothing seemed to do them any good. He should say that 

 the water in which he bred the fish at Burleigh was very 

 highly impregnated with lime, so much so that kitchen 

 boilers got choked in a very short time ; and whenever 

 they attempted to breed these salmon from ova taken from 

 Scotland and elsewhere, after they had lived apparently 

 well for a certain number of weeks, they invariably died of 

 this disease. In a pond close by where there was hardly 

 any shelter from the light, the fungus generally appeared, 

 but it was not so where there was more shade. Latterly, 

 however, since his present pisciculturist, Mr. Silk, had been 

 with him, when the fungus began to show upon the fish 

 they gave them a salt-water bath, which cured them. Some 

 time ago he gave some black bass to the Aquarium, which 

 did well for some time, and then the fungus appeared 

 upon them ; but as Mr. Silk was coming to London, he 

 called there and gave them a salt bath which cured the 



