CONTENTS. 



mTEODUCTOEY CHAPTER. 



PAGE 



The Okigin and Peogeess of Piscicttltuke .... 1 



Chinese Fish Culture ib. 



Fish Culture amongst the Romans 2 



The Lucrine Lake 3 



Mediaeval Fish Culture : Dom Pinchon 4 



JacoH's Method 5 



Mr. Shaw, of Drumlanrig ... ib. 



Gehitt and Remy 6 



Mons. Oo.'ste — Huningue 7 



Description of Huningue and its Apparatus .... 8 



The Estahlishment of the Acclimatisation Society . . 13 



Table of the Fish treated of 15 



CHAPTER I. 



OUB iNLAliTD FiSHEBIBS 16 



The Salmon and its Scarcity ih. 



Natural History of the Salmon 18 



Exportation of Foul Fish to France 20 



Keeping Salmon in Lakes •without an outlet .... 21 



Peculiarity of Salmon in American Lakes . , . . , ii. 



The Salmon in the Egg and Smolt State 22 



Irregularity of Migrations 24 



The Enemies of the Ova and Fry 26 



The Advantages of Artificial Incubation 28 



The chief Piscicultural Operations in Great Britain . . 28 



Vermin found in Gravel, &o 29 



Alluvial Deposits 30 



