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resorted to and promise good results. The cultivation of ponds, which sank from a highly 

 flourishing state in the Middle Ages, after the abolition of monasteries, is now recovering the 

 ground it lost ; and the carp to mention this fish only as an instance of the direction now 

 given to pisciculture, is shown the way of improving his species by the introduction of 

 carefully selected kinds from other localities. Germany, though somewhat hesitatingly at 

 present, is following the example of England in endeavouring to render rivers again passable 

 for migratory fish, and the problem, how to prevent the pollution of rivers more effectually 

 than hitherto, without encroaching upon the lawful interests of other industries, is now 

 occupying learned as well as unlearned heads. One thing unfortunately is yet in the initial 

 stage of its development the sport of angling. This kind of sport, at least when viewed 

 from a sportsman's standpoint, is a thing almost unknown ; for the public are mistaken in 

 assuming that what is commonly practised in Germany as the art of angling, is the genuine 

 prototype of this noble art. Much of its decline may be attributed to shooting, which in 

 Germany especially is such a powerful rival to other forms of recreation. Nevertheless signs of 

 an improvement in this respect are happily discernible, more particularly in Southern Germany, 

 where the votaries of genuine angling are daily on the increase. The time may not be very 

 far off when the German sportsman, jostled by a throng of fellow-devotees, will with some 

 sadness look back upon the day when he with his fishing-rod was the lord of boundless and 

 magnificent tracts of water. 



DIVISION XXVII. 



WILCZYNSKI, E., Isinglass Merchant and Manufacturer, Hamburg. 

 (1) Isinglass ribbon for Brewers' use (Globe brand). (2) Fine cut Isinglass, Russian and 

 Brazil. (3) Collection of Kussian Leaf, East India, Brazil Isinglass, cod sounds, Bay skin. 



DIVISION XXXII. 



ISAAC, MANN, 114 Chaussee Strasse, Berlin. Hugo Kempel, Sole 

 Agent for Great Britain and Ireland, New Basinghall Street, E.C. (1) 12 Slips of Whale- 

 bone. (2) 10 Slips Straight Arctic Whalebone. (3) 10 Slips Curved Arctic Whalebone 

 (4) 50 Bundles of Suckers Whalebone. 



STORK, H., of Ulm. (Messrs. Atkins & Nisbet, 1 Water Lane, 

 E.G., Agents.) (1) 11 Pattern Cards of Lines. (2) 1 Tackle Case in hard wood. (3) 

 2 Fly Cases. (4) 31 Metal Fish. (5) Bait Cans (i.), green, small size ; (ii.) green, larger 

 size ; (iii.) yellow, small size ; (iv.) yellow, larger size. (6) 1 Anglers' Pouch. (7) 1 

 Anglers' Case, with compartments. (8) 6 Show Cards of Prepared Silk Lines, waterproof, 

 intended for anglers to try, and test the quality. (9) 1 Fly Hod. (10) 1 ditto, Houart, 

 with 2 reserve joints. (11) 1 General Kod. Leather Covering (i.) for Fly Hod ; (ii.) for 

 Houart Kod ; (iii.) for General Eod. 



KRAUSS, JOSEPH (Charles Atkins & Nisbet, 1 Water Lane, E.G., 

 Agents), Piscicultural Society of Straubing (Bavaria), (1) Minute-book of the Hon. Guild of 

 Fishers and Fish-dealers, 1672-1701. (2) Proceedings of Fisher Guild of 1553. (3) Appeal 

 of the Vicedomus Christoph, &c. 1620, with seal. (4) Appeal of the Vicedomus Burkhart, 

 &c., 1554, with seal. (5) Plan of the Fish-breeding Establishment of the Pisciculturdl 

 Association of Straubing, erected in 1876. Kesult annually, 25,000 to 30,000 trout and 

 spawnlings. In the year 1882, 19,000 trout from self-bred fish. 



HERRCKE & LEBELING, Publishers, Stettin. (Messrs. Charles 

 Atkins and Nisbet, 1 Water Lane, Gt. Tower Street, E.G., Agents.) (1) Deutsche Fischerei 

 Zeitung (German Fishing Gazette), 1878-1882. Silver medal of Berlin, 1880, Wiirzburg, 

 Grufswald, Linz, &c. (2) Osterreichisch Fischerei Zeitung (Austrian Hungarian Fishing 



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