STOCKING THE CLYDE WITH GEEYLING. 293 



II. 



THE STOCKING OP THE CLYDE WITH GEEYLING. 



In 1858, Mr. J. J. Briggs sent the account of which the 

 accompanying extract is a small part to the Field. He is 

 quoting from Mr. Eyre's Journal, kept to note down any 

 facts that might be interesting. The Clyde is now 

 thoroughly stocked with greyling, which are even of 

 finer size than the trout which are found in it. Three or 

 four dozen a day is an ordinary day's sport. 



" Mr. Eyre says : — 



"'On the 13th of April, 1857, the temperature of the 

 air being 40° Fahr., we netted about 200 greyling near 

 Bakewell, and expressed the spawn and milt from about 

 fifty of them. Of the rest some had spawned, and many 

 were too young. The spawn was put into common wine- 

 bottles, about half-filled with water, and sent off the same 

 night to Abington, on the Clyde, about fifty miles above 

 Glasgow. The West of Scotland Angling Club had 

 already prepared a rill for its reception. About 10,000 

 ova were sent, and I retained some hundreds for experi- 

 ments. They were about one-eighth of an inch in dia- 

 meter. The following remarks are extracted from my 

 diary, the progress of the greyling from the ovum state to 



