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gladly enter upon so interesting and pretty a study, 

 and the sale of ova would, as I have previously 

 remarked, render such an establishment almost self- 

 supporting.^ By the means I have described the 

 whole operation may be conducted. Nay, rivers even 

 might be stocked by the continuous use of a few 

 of these apparatus ; nor do I think the day is far 

 distant when the present taste for aquariums will 

 in this way, as I have said, be turned to a usefiil 

 purpose. 



There is one other species of contrivance used occa- 

 sionally in Prance I believe — the floating apparatus. 

 I have never seen one of these in operation, but 

 can easily conceive that they possess many advan- 

 tages in some places. Mr. Fry mentions them. iThey 

 are composed of wicker or basket work, somswhat 

 after the shape and fashion of the baskets called 

 by poulterers and others " flats," save that they are 

 shallower and of course more carefully made. The 

 ova is deposited on a grille within it, and the >asket 

 is floated on some gentle but clear stream, the l)asket 

 being weighted just so much as to allow an iach of 

 water to flow over the ova, and being kept in its 



1 The CommissioneTS of the Irish Salmon Mslieries havi hatched 

 a considerable numher of salmon ova, and tried some interesting 

 experiments, in their offices at the Custom House in Dubln. 



