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remain still some curious and amusing ones to be 

 mentioned. We defer them to another day. My 

 third lesson shall be on the methods of breeding sal- 

 mon artificially— on M. Coste's, member of the 

 French Institute and professor at the College of 

 France ; on Mr. Young's, as given in the Book of 

 the Salmon ; and on that of the ingenious and inde- 

 fatigable Mr. Gottleib Boccius, should I see him 

 within the next week or so. 



Jan. 4, 1854. Ephemera. 



LESSON III. 



As I am not so much opposed to the artificial breed- 

 ing of salmon as several celebrated corespondents of 

 this journal, I shall briefly sketch the different 

 methods formerly and recently adopted in Europe 

 for propagating salmon by what are called artificial 

 means. The Messrs. Edmund and Thomas Ashworth, 

 of Egerton Hall, Bolton, Lancashire, have purchased 

 in the Court for the Sale of Encumbered Estates a 

 " several fishery, extending from Lough Corrib to 

 the sea," and have attempted in the spawning sea- 

 son of 1852 to propagate salmon near Outerard ar- 

 tificially. Last year, they published "A Treatise 

 on the Propagation of Salmon and Other Fish." It 

 is not original, being merely a translation of certain 



