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food for the spawn, and took care to give them what nature 

 would give them, he had not the slightest doubt but that 

 similar results would be obtained. To the limited extent 

 to which the culture of coarse fish had been attempted it 

 had been successful, and they should be encouraged to 

 persevere. It was not altogether a question of cost ; Lon- 

 don anglers had not much to spend, and they might be 

 careful what they spent, but if their money was well spent 

 in an experiment which might not he successful this year, 

 but was likely to be successful in another, he was sure they 

 were sufficiently intelligent to be satisfied with the result. 

 With regard to the black bass, he was not at all opposed to 

 its introduction under certain circumstances, but until their 

 knowledge of it was more complete he thought it desirable 

 to proceed with extreme caution before introducing it to 

 any large extent. His impression was that in this matter 

 they should be very conservative, and not run a risk which 

 at present they were not prepared for. He would warmly 

 advocate the introduction of any fish likely to be useful, 

 but never until it was perfectly certain that it was not going 

 to injure the existing stock. 



Dr. SEYMOUR HADEN said a very good illustration of 

 the extreme facility with which coarse fish were bred was 

 shown by the way in which the town of Lyons was furnished 

 with coarse fish before the time of railways. As a boy he 

 was well acquainted with the neighbourhood of Lyons, and 

 in the immediate vicinity there were six lakes one above 

 another. They were never known to have been stocked 

 with fish by anyone, but they were treated in this way. 

 After a certain number of years the lower lake was dragged, 

 and the fish sent to market. The next year the lake above 

 it was drawn, the next year the one above that, and so on 

 until the whole six had been drawn in turn. In every case 



