text:  From these and other experiments of a similar nature which Mr Shaw has been conducting for many years he has come to the conclusion that the small fry called "Orange-fins " which are found journeying to the sea with smolts of the true salmon are the young of sea-trout of the age of two years;--that the same individuals after nine or ten weeks' sojourn in salt water ascend the rivers as herlings weighing ten or twelve ounces and on the approach of autumn pass into our smaller tributaries with a view to the continuance of their kind;--that having spawned they re-descend into the sea where their increase of size (about one and a half pound per annum) is almost totally obtained;--and that they return annually with an accession of size for several seasons to the rivers in which their parents gave them birth