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tive fish of Utah; and another, by Colonel James Worrall, on 

 the movement for the restoration of fish in Pennsylvania. A 

 communication was presented by Mr. Paxton upon the sub- 

 ject of the diminution of whitefish in lakes Erie and Mich- 

 igan, referring to a locality where six or eight years ago 

 60,000 were taken, while during the last season only 2000 

 were captured. He expressed his intention of starting an 

 establishment for the breeding of whitefish at Windsor, Can- 

 ada, where the authorities have ofl'ered facilities, and for 

 which the Canadian government has made an appropriation. 



In the course of a discussion as to the number of eggs to 

 be obtained from a trout, it was asserted that fish weighing 

 a pound produced 500, while some claimed that the number 

 would be at least twice as great. 



The officers for the current year are, William Clift, pres- 

 ident ; A. G. Collins, secretary ; B. F. Bowles, treasurer ; ex- 

 ecutive committee, Seth Green, E. A. Brackett, and M. C. Ed- 

 munds. The association adjourned to meet in New York 

 City on the second Monday in February, 1874. JHural New- 

 Yorker, March 4,1873. 



CULTUPwE OF SEA-FISH IN FEESH W^ATER. 



In the great interest manifested at the present time in the 

 subject of the economical food fishes, as shown by the efforts 

 taken to prevent their destruction and to increase their num- 

 bers by artificial propagation, to cultivate them in unusual 

 localities, etc., we should not lose sight of what has already 

 been done in earlier years in the same direction. Without 

 referring to the practice of the Romans, or to the labors ex- 

 tended through so many centuries in stocking fish-ponds with 

 carp and other species, we may recall the experiments of a 

 more recent date by Mr. J. B. Arnold, of Guernsey, as long 

 ago as 1829, detailed in the Proceedings of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London for August, 1831. This gentleman had a lake 

 of about five acres in extent near the sea-coast, and principally 

 supplied with fresh Avater. Its bottom was muddy, grav- 

 elly, and rocky. During nine months of the year the water 

 was drinkable for cattle, but, in consequence of a supply re- 

 ceived throuo-h a tunnel which communicated with the sea, 

 was rather salt in summer. 



He introduced into this lake the gray mullet, bass, smelt, 



