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The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. 



Sir JAMES G. MAITLAND, in reply, said that he was very 

 glad that his Paper had elicited remarks from the repre- 

 sentatives of America and Canada, both of which countries 

 were pre-eminently known for fish culture. He could not 

 say that he agreed with all the remarks that had been made. 

 Fishing was a very old art ; fish had been caught ever 

 since man went out in a coracle, but fish culture was still 

 very young, and it would be expecting a great deal to 

 expect Parliament to change legislation in a moment before 

 this art had had time to approve itself to the nation. He 

 quite agreed with the opinion expressed by Mr. Brady that 

 so long as there was any doubt, they should not legislate. 

 With regard to his hybrid experiments, they were yet too 

 young to say exactly what might come of them, but they 

 showed peculiar forms in scaling, and perhaps might help 

 towards connecting different species of Salmonidse and re- 

 ducing them down to one or two species, the others being 

 merely varieties. He was much obliged to Mr. Wilmot 

 for his remarks on land-locked Salmon ; but having had 

 some experience on lakes in Scotland where Salmon had 

 been bred and had not gone into the sea, he had found 

 invariably that where there were no Char in the lake the 

 Salmon had become very large in the head, and seldom 

 exceeded four or five pounds in weight. On the other 

 hand, some nine years ago he got a few eggs of the Leuvi 

 Trout from the late Mr. Buckland, and turned about one 

 hundred and fifty into a small piece of water a little over 

 one hundred acres, which contained nothing but small 

 Perch. Last Friday a gentleman brought him one of these 

 fish, which he had found washed ashore, which must have 

 been just nine years old ; it measured 33 J inches, but was 

 in very bad condition. The Trout when put under con- 



