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siderable distance, and be more or less disturbed by falls and 

 obstructions, so as to absorb a large amount of atmospheric 

 air. Circular of Deutsche Fischer ei-Verein, x., 1872, 265. 



ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF YOUNG SHAD IN THE SACRAMENTO 



RIVER. 



The Sacramento Record contains a paragraph to the effect 

 that during the past summer some Indians, while fishing in 

 the Upper Sacramento, near the mouth of Pitt River, caught 

 several fish of a kind entirely unknown to them. These on 

 being exhibited to Mr.Esmore, residing on the river near that 

 point, were pronounced by him to be genuine shad. It is 

 well known that in June, 1871, Seth Green succeeded in 

 transferring about 10,000 young shad from the Hudson Riv- 

 er to the Upper Sacramento, and strong hopes were enter- 

 tained that these might be the beginning of a supply of that 

 fish in the Sacramento. They were not looked for, however, 

 until the expiration of at least three years from the time of 

 birth, which would be in 1874. 



The Indians will doubtless, regret as much as we do that 

 the question was not placed beyond any doubt, as Seth Green 

 offered $50 reward for the first shad caught in the river. We 

 shall be glad to have any additional facts on this subject that 

 may come to the knowledge of any of our correspondents in 

 California, as the subject is of great interest and importance. 

 Sacramento Record. 



REPORT OF FISH COMMISSIONERS OF VERMONT. 



The report of Dr. M. C. Edmunds and Dr. M. Goldsmith, 

 Fish Commissioners of the State of Vermont, of their opera- 

 tions for the years 1871 and 1872, has just been presented to 

 the Legislature, and published by its order. They state that 

 the previous Commissioner, Professor Hager, having left the 

 state in 1870, there has been no report since 1869. Profess- 

 or Hager's experiments, however, succeeded in placing some 

 40,000 salmon in the waters of the state, most of them in 

 the Williams River, near Chester, the locality of his hatch- 

 insj-house. 



Some misgivings are expressed by the Commissioners as 

 to the probable fate of these fish, which we fear will be con- 

 firmed by future experience, as the young fish were retained 



