5110 THE ZooLocist—OcToBER, 1876. 
I had almost omitted to mention that several storm petrels, 
seemingly in an exhausted state, were captured in Plymouth 
Sound on the 16th of August. The weather was fine, with a nice 
breeze, but the day after, it blew a gale from the east, accompanied 
by a tremendous thunder-storm. 
J OHN GATCOMBE. 
8, Lower Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth. 
Fish Culture for the Thames. By Joun T. CArrinGTon, 
ACCOMPANIED by my friends Mr. W. A. Lloyd and Mr. E.. Howard 
Birchall, I recently visited, by invitation, the fish-breeding esta- 
blishment of Mr. James Forbes, of Chertsey Bridge, on the Upper 
Thames. Mr. Forbes’ fish-house is a large well-built glass and 
brick edifice standing in the immediate rear of his house: it is 
quite new, and built entirely for the purpose to which it is devoted, 
having replaced an older structure, a greenhouse, which Mr. Forbes 
formerly used for his experiments: these were so successful that 
the operations were extended. 
Before commencing my description of Mr. Forbes’ establishment, 
it should be understood that all he has done is from an entirely 
patriotic and disinterested feeling: he is a keen sportsman and an 
ardent angler, and the whole of the fish thus reared at a great outlay 
of time and of several thousands of pounds in money will, as soon 
as the fish are able to take care of themselves, be turned into the 
Thames, there to grow and delight the heart of many a fisherman. 
The saloon in which the operations are conducted is thirty-four feet 
in length and proportionately broad. On the right, on entering, is 
a brick wall; the front of the building, which has a north-west 
aspect, and the ends, being of glass. The first series of tanks are the 
ordinary step-shaped hatching troughs: in this series, with several 
additional tanks, Mr. Forbes hatches out from sixty thousand up to 
a hundred thousand ova each season. In connection with these 
is a further series of six tanks, each three feet long by one foot 
eight inches wide, and two feet deep, for receiving the young 
fish. The sides and ends of these tanks are of glass, so that all 
the operations of feeding may be readily observed. Besides these 
are several larger tanks, used for various purposes, but chiefly 
to contain parent fish or some of large growth which have been 
reared by Mr. Forbes from ova, Lastly, in this room, is a useful 
