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AN ANGLER'S PARADISE. 



An Angler's Paradise | and | How to Obtain it | By | J. J. Armistead | 



[4 lines of titles] | Published by | The Angler Limited, at the Offices, 

 Scarborough | and 143, Strand, W.C. | 1895 [8vo, cloth, xviii-f 304 pages 4- 

 8 plates]. 



The present work, which we are glad to note has run into a second 

 edition, though there does not appear to be any direct indication 

 thereof on the title-page of the copy now lying before us, gives 

 a very comprehensive view of the subject. It is divided into two 

 parts, the first of which, in four chapters, treats of an Angler's 

 Paradise, the second, of fifteen chapters, entering into the practical 

 details of 'how to obtain it.' 



Mr. Armistead, who has now carried out pisciculture with singular 

 ability and success for a lengthened period of years at the Solway 

 Fishery near Dumfries, commencess, after some general remarks on 

 the subject of fish-culture, with an account of his own first beginnings 

 in Cumberland in 1868, along with the late John Parnaby. It was 

 not till 1882 that the establishment was transferred to its present 

 location. 



The second part of the work is the practical one, dealing 

 successively with the construction of fish-ponds, their cultivation 

 and suitable plants for stocking them with, how to stock them with 

 fish, the hatchery and its construction, collecting the eggs, incubating 

 them, hatching them, packing and unpacking them, and the care of 

 4 alevins,' or newly-hatched fish. Pond-life forms the subject of an 

 interesting chapter in which are mentioned the insects, crustaceans, 

 and mollusks, which are either the food of the young trout or prey 

 upon them. Then follow chapters on rearing the fry, the yearling 

 stage, and the management of mature trout, and the concluding 

 chapter deals with salmon culture. The last page is devoted to an 

 appendix on how to make a rat trap or what appears to be rather 

 a rat exterminator. 



The whole work abounds in facts, hints, and suggestions of great 

 value, and is throughout of very great interest. The illustrations are 



numerous, the full-page plates giving views of the writer's establish- 

 ment at the Solway Fishery. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Want of space has hitherto prevented our noting the decease of the Rev. H. F. 

 Bames-Lawrence, C.M.Z.S., of Bridlington, to whom we owe the original incep- 

 tion of the first Wild Birds' Protection Act ; and that of Mr. Peter Inchbald, 

 f-L.S.. F./.S., of Hornsea, an all-round naturalist, who not only accomplished 

 much himself, hut from his profession as a schoolmaster was able to instil the love 

 of natural history into not a few men who have since achieved distinction. 



~pt. 1896. 



