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of 75° to 80°, My experiments were tried in a tub of water, where, of 

 course, the conditious were unfavorable to the fish." 



1881. 



May 10, 1881. — A rainbow trout, 14 inches long (catalogue number 

 27844), bred to this size from the eggs at North ville, Mich., by Mr. 

 Frank 2»r. Clark, was received from the United States carp ponds, 

 Washington, D. C, where Mr. Clark had sent it. 



Xorcmher 24, 1881. — Hon. S. G. Worth, commissioner of agriculture 

 of the State of Korth Carolina, forwarded, in alcohol, a specimen of 

 rainbow trout, 8 iuches in length, which was caught on a hook in the 

 month of August in Mill Creek, a tributary of Catawba Eiver. (Cata- 

 logue number, 29113.) The commissioner wrote as follows concerning 

 the fish : "It may be well to mention the planting of 1,000 California 

 trout in Mill Creek, March, 1880, with the land-locked salmon. These 

 fish nuist be the original plant of 1880, there being dams below and 

 these the oidy ones planted above." 



5. Shad [Alosa sapid issima (Wilson) Storer]. 



1871. 



: — , 1871. — The New Bedford Evening Standard, of this date, an- 

 nounces a large increase in the catch of shad in the Connecticut and 

 Hudson Rivers, which is undoubtedly owing to the work of artificial 

 propagation. It farther adds : 



"Seth Green, in a letter to E,. G. Pike, fish commissioner of Connecti- 

 cut, in answer to his inquiry as to whether there had been an increase 

 in the number of shad caught in the Hudson River, says: 



" There has been an increase in the catch in the Hudson River * * 



* I am not surprised at the increase; it is what I predicted. There 

 is no increase in any river that shad frequent except the Connecticut 

 and Hudson. 



"I have just come from the South and find their catch is light every- 

 where." 



1872. 



. — In the report of the Connecticut fish commissioners for 1872, 



we find that schools of shad in immense numbers were seen in the 

 spring in Long Island Sound, making their way i\]) to the Connecticut 

 River, and on the 23d of May over twenty-eight hundred were taken from 

 a pound near Saybrooke ; at another, thirty-five hundred and sixty were 

 taken, and elsewhere they were caught in numbers varying with the 

 locality. 



The largest haul previously on record was in 1811, when twenty-two 

 hundred and eighty were taken, though there was a haul said to have 

 been made in 18G2 at Haddam Pier of twenty-three hundred. 



The abundance of shad in the river in 1871 was still greater than in 



