128 FISH HATCHING. 



cripples from his apparatus at Hampton. 

 I have already hatched out a most curious 

 specimen myself, viz., a trout with two heads,, 

 and one tail which serves for the two heads, 

 and one umbilical vesicle. This double fish 

 is alive and well. Mr. Ponder has sent me 

 not only a similar specimen of a trout (also 

 alive), but also a salmon with one tail and 

 two bodies (a most desirable breed of fish in 

 the eyes of the fishmonger, if we could only 

 manage to cultivate them). He also found 

 among the young fish a charr with four eyes, 

 — a trout with body twisted like a bell-spring, 

 — a trout with a body as round as a ring, 

 besides numerous other deformed patients, 

 fit for the Orthopoedic Hospital, diagrams of 

 some of which I now exhibit, drawn by Mr. 

 W. Searson. 



