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probably, on this account, are found to inhabit deep water at 
certain times of the year. It is a well known fact, that one variety 
of char found in Windermere spawns in the river that feeds the 
lake. The fish migrate up this stream as the spawning time 
approaches. A short distance above the lake it forks, and the 
char invariably go up one fork only, and avoid the other. It is 
quite likely that temperature has something to do with this. Be 
it as it may, the char is a good fish, and its life history is well 
worth studying, with a view to its further development. 
An idea seems to prevail amongt ichthyologists and others 
that these fish cannot live in the sea. I once kept one in sea 
water for twenty-one days, and it seemed all the better for it. 
The fish had got a little fungus (Sapvo/egnia) on the dorsal fin, 
and was put into a tank of sea water, to be taken out in a short 
time again. The man in charge of the work was suddenly called 
away, and the fish was overlooked for several hours, when I found 
it apparently quite happy in a corner of the tank. Seeing this, I 
allowed it to remain, but kept an eye on it, in case it became 
distressed ; but nothing of the kind took place, and at the end of 
the twenty-first day it was taken out and returned to its pond, 
alive and well. 
It is a question whether the introduction of a Coregonus 
(white fish) into some of the larger lakes might be advantageous. 
Where they are suited by their surroundings, some species are 
very prolific, and once introduced would soon multiply. These 
fish are known to occur in such numbers, in some lakes, as to 
form a very profitable source of income to those engaged in 
fishing for them. I am not yet prepared to say how far their 
introduction into such lakes as Windermere would be desirable ; 
but the matter is well worth investigation. I have eaten them 
both in Europe and America, and have found them excellent. 
The cultivation of lake bottoms is a matter to which no attention 
has been paid, but it will be apparent to anyone that it must have 
a considerable bearing on the future welfare, or condition, of our 
lake fisheries. There is a field for investigation here, in which 
there is room for a large number of workers—a piece of almost 
untrodden ground in fact. 
In some of the waters of the district we find, on examination, 
