many private persons will be found sufficiently philan- 

 thropic to undertake the restocking of our exhausted lobster 

 grounds for the benefit of the fishing commonwealth. 

 Nevertheless, there are many large landowners with estates 

 bordered by a rocky coast-line, who would doubtless wel- 

 come the opportunity of thus placing at their tenants' 

 disposal the means of materially augmenting their source 

 of income. To those among this category who have had 

 practical experience in trout and salmon hatching, this sub- 

 ject of lobster culture might be especially recommended 

 upon several grounds. The routine in either case will be very 

 similar, while a large portion of the apparatus constructed 

 for salmon hatching might be utilised for lobster culture, 

 and moreover would be empty and available for use just at 

 the time when the lobsters commence to spawn.* To other 

 nations besides our own it may be anticipated that this pro- 

 posed plan of hatching and rearing lobsters would be found 

 advantageous. By way of illustration, reference may be 

 made to the arduous efforts that were instituted in the 

 United States, and notably by Mr. Livingstone Stone, to 

 transport the lobster across the continent from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific seaboard where it was previously unknown. 

 Experiments in every instance were made with adult 



* Mr. Frank Gosden, pisciculturist to the Duke of Wellington, has 

 imparted to me within the last few days a very interesting piece of 

 information that bears upon the subject of lobster culture. He tells 

 me that for some time past, during the summer months, he has with 

 great success devoted the troughs utilised in winter and spring for 

 hatching trout, to the rearing of newly-hatched freshwater crayfish. 

 Lobster rearing on the same principle he considers would be equally 

 feasible. It is perhaps desirable to mention here that the river cray- 

 fish has not, like the lobster, a free-swimming or Zoea phase, but 

 enters upon the ambulatory condition immediately it leaves the egg. 

 The treatment required for the two animals would therefore not be 

 precisely parallel. 



