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have done so well as they have. To their communi- 

 cations, which appear in company with this, I direct 

 the careful attention of naturalists, and of all who 

 own salmon rivers, and are desirous of having pro- 

 ductive salmon fisheries. Printed proofs of them, 

 and of my lessons, shall in a few days be forwarded 

 for the consideration of H. K. H. Prince Albert, who 

 has always exhibited beneficent anxiety and readi- 

 ness to add to the comforts of the English people, 

 to the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Palmerston, Mr. 

 Sydney Herbert, and Sir W. Molesworth, all of 

 whom are desirous to promote the culture of sal«non 

 waters, and to restore them to their former state of 

 fertility. 



This lesson shall be confined to two modes of 

 breeding salmon artificially. The first is copied, not 

 in extenso, from Experimental Observations on the 

 Development and Growth of Salmon-Fry, &c. By 

 John Shaw, of Drumlanrig. — (Edinburgh : Adam 

 and G. Black. 1840.) — Mr. Shaw, as far as my 

 knowledge extends, the first British^ breeder of sal- 

 mon artificially, writes thus : — " On the 10th of 

 January, 1836, I observed a female salmon of con- 

 siderable size (about 161b.), and two males (of at 

 least 251b.), engaged in depositing their spawn. 

 The spot, which they had selected for that purpose, 

 was a little apart from some other salmon which 

 were engaged in the same process, and rather nearer 

 the side, although still in pretty deep water. The 

 two males kept up an incessant conflict during the 



