of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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the ripe fish, males and females, are kept together in a very large tank 
where they spawn naturally, the floating fertilised ova being then removed 
from the surface of the water. This system has been found to answer much 
better than the old method, Captain Dannevig is preparing duplicates of 
the plans of his hatchery, and a description of it, for the use of the Scotch 
Board ; but they have not yet come to hand. He informs me that 
lobster culture will shortly be begun at the new hatchery. 
10. ITALY. 
Professor Giglioli informs me that no new special scientific fishery 
investigations were undertaken last year in Italy ; but the observations 
on spawning, breeding, and the food of sea fishes have been continued 
by Dr Raffaele at the Zoological Station, Naples. As was stated last year, 
on the suggestion of Professor Giglioli, at the last annual meeting of the 
Fishery Commission at Rome, in October, 1888, some experiments have 
been made at Naples on the effects of trawling. Professor Giglioli also 
i gave an account of the excellent work you are doing towards the elucida- 
■ tion of that most important subject.' Last year the Italian Government 
undertook the restocking of lakes and rivers with trout and young eels. 
As a practical result, Professor Giglioli states that he saw a lake-trout 
from Lake Bracciano, 40 centimetres long ; the result of fry placed in 
that lake, in which no trout previously existed, by Dr Vinciguerra two 
years before. 
The Italian fishery law of 1877 has special articles regulating the size 
of lawfully saleable fish of different species ; but no new departures on 
this subject have been made lately. 
By the law above referred to I find that the minimum size is fixed 
for the lawful sale of 47 kinds of fish. The minimum legal size s f or soles 
(Solca vulgaris), turbot, brill and whiting is 12 centimetres (about four 
and a half inches) ; for plaice 10 centimetres (about four inches) ; sizes 
are also fixed for the sardine, anchovy, mullet, eel, &c* 
11. GERMANY. 
The sixth Report of the Kiel Commission was issed last year, f It con- 
sists of a single memoir by Reinke on the Algae of the Western Baltic and 
is accompanied by an atlas of 25 plates. 
* Minister o di agricoltura, industria e commercio : Legge e regolamenti sulla pesca, 
Rome, 1880. 
+ Sechster Bericht der Kommission zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der 
deutschen Meere, in Kiel, fur die Jahre 1887, bis 1889, Berlin 1889. 
