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Mr. Ashworth said he had known salmon go down weighing 10 lb. 
and come up weighing 20 Ib. 
Sir Philip Egerton, in reply to an observation made by Dr. Lankes- 
ter, stated that the subject of legislating for the artificial production of 
mon had been very often considered by the Legislature, but the dif- 
ficulty lay in securing property in the fish produced. e proper place 
to breed salmon was at the heads of rivers; but as the salmon came up 
from the sea they would be caught by proprietors lower down, and no 
benefit accrue to the individuals who bred them. There was no doubt 
the quantity of salmon might be enormously increased by the process 
mended, 
5. On certain Curious Motions observable on the Surfaces of Wine 
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weight preponderates, and it falls down again. anner in which 
t Th n explains these two parts of the phenomena is, that the 
— Watery portions of the entire su . hav more tension than 
was wet. Then the tendency is for the various parts of this ring or 
line to run together to those parts which happen to be most watery, and — 
Portions of the liquid aggregate themselves soon become too heavy to 
be Sustained, and so they fall down. The same af of explanation, 
€n carried a step further, shows the reason on 
commonly observed on f win the inside of a 
e adhering to the insi 
wine glass when the glass, having been partially filled with wine, has 
face of the liquid; for, to explain these motions, it is on 
inside of the glass must very quickly become more 
Fest, on account of the evaporation of the alcohol contained in’ it 
More rapid than the evaporation of the water. On this matte 
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