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any of the ponds brings to hand a sparkling mass of fine, healthy 
fish; among the older ones are a number of remarkable size. Perch, 
Tench, and other species are also reared; and there is a pond 
devoted to Gold-fish, with a small colony also of Leather Carp, 
reared from American fish. He has it in contemplation to try a 
series of experiments with our own Salmon, with a view to 
acclimatize it in the fresh water, and produce, as the Americans 
have done, a landlocked variety, which the owner of a pond or 
stream may always have at command. 
Of course where so many fish are kept in a limited area they 
have to be artificially fed. Twice a day, and oftener in summer, 
animal food of various kinds is thrown to them; and on a warm 
day it is an animated sight to see the surface of the ponds all 
a-ripple and sparkling with bubbles caused by the continual 
leaping of their numerous tenants. Crustaceans and even Tad- 
poles reared ‘“‘on the premises” go to supplement the hand-feeding 
in their season. A nursery of aquatic plants is also maintained 
for the sustenance of fish-life. 
The situation of the fishery is somewhat remote,—two miles 
from the postal and telegraph station at New Abbey, and four 
from the railway, at Killywhan,—but an ample supply of good 
water and other facilities far more than compensate for this. 
The site, too, is a very pleasant one, under the shelter of the 
fine wood of larch and fir that stretches up towards Kinharvie 
House, with the New Abbey hills and the Waterloo monument in 
the background, and a fine view of Criffel and the Solway com- 
manded by the climbing of a gentle eminence, whence the privileged 
visitor is sure to carry away the pleasantest memories of a 
personal kind. 
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Death of Mr. Frederick Bond.—On the 10th August, at Staines, 
where he had resided for many years, our dear old friend Frederick Bond 
passed quietly and peacefully away, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. 
He will be much missed by everyone who knew him, but by none more 
than by the present generation of ornithologists and entomologists, to whom 
he was truly a guide, philosopher, and friend. When it is remembered 
that he helped to found ‘The Zoologist,’ in 1848, and contributed to its 
pages at intervals from that date to the present year (his last note, on the 
