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kind of permanent exhibition of fishery products and apparatus 

 which we should like to see established in all countries. There 

 are_ several novelties in Mr. Buckland's collection well worth 

 seeing. The casts of large salmon and fine trout so beautifully- 

 coloured by Mr. H. L. Eolfe are exceedingly interesting. There 

 is a collection at present on view [1873] at South Kensington 

 which must greatly delight all anglers. I allude to the con- 

 tributions of stufied fish which have been sent to the exhibition 

 by various angling and piscatorial societies. A trout over 

 fourteen pounds in weight is shown, also a pike which pulled 

 the scale at twenty-eight pounds. Numerous fine specimens 

 of carp are likewise to be seen, as also, grayling, bream, and 

 perch. The cast of the 72 lb. Tay sahnon will at once 

 take the eye. Mr. Eolfe has made it look as like nature as 

 possible. Mr. Buckland has been very successful from time 

 to time in his fish hatching operations, especially with the 

 different kinds of salmon and hybrids of trout. The hatching 

 was most successful this year, and a very varied stock of 

 eggs was deposited,*' as the following list will show: — Sahno 

 ferox (hatched out February 22); Rhine salmon (March 9); 

 Norway trout. Great Lake trout (hatched February 22); 

 Tyne salmon (hatched February 26); Newstead Abbey 

 trout (hatched March 14); Neuchitel trout, common trout 

 (hatched Febrjiary 20) ; Sahno /ario (hatched March 9) ; silver 

 char, salmon and trout hybrids ; sea-trout hybrids from Nunin- 

 guen (hatched February 27). It would require many pages of 

 this work to catalogue all the remarkable things connected with 

 his pet subject, which Mr. Buckland has begged or borrowed 

 for his exhibition. He stops at nothing from the whitebait to 

 the whale. When I last visited the museum one great feature 

 was a large skeleton of the latter animal set up on a. plot of land 

 outside, it being too large to be accommodated within. Londoners 

 are now fortunate, for they can see at the museum of economic 

 fish-culture, and at the aquarium at the Crystal Palace, much 

 that will interest them in fish life and economy. 



The Brighton and Crystal Palace aquaria will do much 

 to spread a correct knowledge of the life and habits of all kinds of 

 fish. These exhibitions are exceedingly attractive, and are daily 

 visited by crowds of persons anxious to see how the inhabitants 

 of the sea behave in their native element. The aquarium at 

 Brighton is in a hall by the sea; it is large, commodious, 

 and convenient, both for the reception of its finny population and 



