THE SALMON. By Alex. Russel.

1864 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 230mm). Ppviii,248 + 12pp publisher's catalogue. Not illustrated. Decorative blind-stamped green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

This is a detailed analysis of the state of the salmon as a species in the UK in the middle of the nineteenth century, with suggestions as to how to improve its lot. Chapters include: Value of the salmon - property, employment, food, sport; Natural history - parr, emigration, immigration, what's a grilse?, natural waste of salmon life, spring salmon, 'fish of the salmon kind'; Decay of the salmon - amount of the decay, periods, causes; Legislation - principles of all salmon legislation, ancient legislation, its curiosities, suspension of legislation, renewal upon the old principles, difference between agricultural and fishery property, the Duke of Roxbughe, Upper and Lower Proprietors, harmlessness of angling, the Tweed Acts of 1857 and 1859, the Tay Act of 1858, Ness and Beauly Bill of 1860, Committee of the House of Lords, Royal Commission of Inquiry for England, General Scotch Bill of 1861, General Scotch Act of 1862, English Act of 1861, Irish Acts of 1842 and 1862; Future salmon legislation - Scotch fixed nets, pollution of rivers; Non-legislative remedies - domestic breeding and rearing, fish, flesh and fowl, revolution in the fish market, 'peace, reform and retrenchment'.