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fishers, the steam-launches on the Thames, and the enor- 

 mous interest some people seemed to take in the intro- 

 duction of swans, Brent geese, ducks, and other individuals 

 which shovelled up ova when deposited in the spawning- 

 beds, he was free to confess that two years ago he withdrew 

 unreservedly his opposition, and as far as it lay in his 

 power he should be happy to give any association with 

 which Mr. Marston was connected his utmost support. 

 Mr. Chambers' fish box was like Lund's, only that the 

 sides were covered with galvanised wire, the insides being 

 lined with the points of the pine. He remembered one 

 day in his sixteenth year, having got tired of fishing he 

 turned up his sleeves and went along the bank trying 

 to catch a few cray-fish. He came to the roots of an 

 old willow-tree, and there discovered large rods of spawn 

 attached to and intermingled amongst the roots of the 

 willow. He got the man who was with him to cut off the 

 roots, put them in his bait tin, and took them home and 

 put them into a pond through which flowed a slight stream 

 of water. Every morning he examined these under the 

 microscope, and was delighted to see the gradual develop- 

 ment of the perch. The recollection of the fact suggested 

 to him, when he saw Mr. Chambers' box, that it might be 

 improved by interlacing the roots of the willow into the 

 uprights of these boxes in place of the points of the pine- 

 tree, which he thought were hardly to be found at the 

 bottom of a river. They were very slippery, and where 

 the point was broken off there was always a resinous flow 

 into the water, which would at once be fatal to the germ. 

 He had put this forward as a suggestion which he hoped 

 would be tried. As an illustration of what swans, geese, 

 and ducks would do he might say that there was a 

 certain nobleman in the south of England who was kind 



