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one he describes' ('History of Howietoun,' 1887, p. 91). Soon 

 afterwards he started iish-culture on a small burn at Sauchie, his 

 father's property in Stirlingshire. In the next season he built a 

 hatching-home on the same burn. At this time he was living at 

 Craigend, a small house near Sauchie, and in the same season, 

 1874-75, he repaired an old dam there, and made an experimental 

 hatching-room in the house. In March 1874 work was begun at 

 Howietoun near the site of an old mill on the Sauchie estate. In 

 1876, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the title and 

 estates. Work at Howietoun progressed steadily, and the number 

 of ponds increased. Meanwhile a most interesting series of expe- 

 riments in the breeding of trout was in progress, which, having 

 been begun as early as 1874, was afterwards carried on year by 

 year. 



In 1881 Sir James published a short essay on the ' Salmon 

 Disease ' and a pamphlet on ' Stocking Water with Fish,' which has 

 gone through many editions. 



In 1883 he obtained several awards at the Fisheries Exhibition 

 in London, and read a paper on Fish-culture. 



In 1881 his attention was turned to the transport of fish ova to 

 the Antipodes, and on December 27th of that year he despatched 

 a consignment of 10,000 Loch Leven trout -eggs to the Otago 

 Acclimatization Society. It proved a failure ; but subsequent 

 consignments both of trout and salmon ova were completely 

 successfuL In April 1886 Sir Francis Dillon Bell, Agent-General 

 for New Zealand, informed a Committee of the House of Lords 

 that a shipment of nearly | million of ova which had been under 

 Sir James Maitland's charge, and had been taken chiefly by his 

 care and assiduity, had successfully reached the colony, thereby 

 conferring a very great benefit upon 'New Zealand, and about the 

 same time the Government of that colony presented Sir James 

 with a pair of silver vases in recognition of his services. 



In 1887 the first part of the ' History of Howietoun ' was pub- 

 lished. The volume contains the history of the fishery from its 

 commencement in 1873 up to the middle of the year 1879, and it 

 was intended that a second volume should complete the story ujd to 

 1887. Part of the volume was written, and some illustrations were 

 prepared for it, but it has never been completed. 



Sir James took part occasionally in the discussions at the Meetings 

 of this Society, but never contributed a paper himself, although it 

 is well known that he gave material assistance in the collection of 



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