216 riSH HATCHING. 



Desirous that the important process of 

 fish-hatching should be made known to 

 country gentlemen and owners of salmon 

 and trout fisheries, I obtained the permission 

 of the editor of "The Field" to place my 

 apparatus in the window of his oflB.ce in 

 the Strand, where it has remained since 

 January last. My labours in this respect 

 have been amply repaid, not only by the 

 general public interest excited in watching 

 the operation, but also by the visits and 

 anxious inquiries of many influential gentle- 

 men and proprietors of fisheries ; nay, what 

 is still better, six or seven of my visitors have 

 even fish-hatching boxes actually at work on 

 their own premises, constructed after the 

 models which I have given them.* 



* I here give a list of those who have constructed fish- 



