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per pound ; in November tbey sold for 3^ cents per pound. The fisli- 



ermeu do not think there will be a large school this winter. I think if 



all the boats would take their nets up and keep them up a week it would 



be better for all hands. 



I hope next week to give a better report. 



Very respectfully, 



S. J. MAETIX. 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



DRY TRAIVSITIISSIOIV OF FISH-ECOS. 



By MAX voo dcm BORNE. 



It is well known that the eggs and milt of fish, when kept separate, 

 die very quickly in water, but that in many cases they will remain 

 alive for several days if kept out of the water. It is to this property 

 that is due the efficiency of the so-called dry method of fertilization. It 

 is also known that it is very difficult to ship recently fertilized eggs of 

 fish in the first stages of their development. Under these circumstances 

 it occurred to me that eggs fertilized entirely dry (if not brought into 

 contact with water at all), and their development thereby delayed, could 

 be more readily transported than if brought in contact with water be- 

 fore the journey, and transported during the first condition of embryonic 

 subdivision. 



To test this problem I requested Herr Glase (Basle) to send me some 

 salmon eggs and milt, together, in a hog's blac^ler, without the addition 

 of any water. This has been done twice, and with them, at the same 

 time, a number of eggs treated and packed in the ordinary manner. The 

 journey lasted three days, and the temperature was high, in spite of 

 which the dry -packed eggs both times arrived in good condition, and 

 were of a beautiful red, while the eggs treated in the ordinary manner 

 were almost all dead and of a very pale color. I propose, hereafter, to 

 investigate whether embryonized eggs may be sent better in the blad- 

 ders than in the ordinary packing. — 0.- TJ. Fischerei-Zeitung, Vienna, De- 

 cember 8, 1880. 



A DEPOT FOR EMBRYOJVATED EOGS OF Alit. THE TA£.UABr,£ 



KINDS OF FISH."^ 



By JOSEPH SWETITSCH. 



fFrom Oesterreichiscli-Ungarisclie Fisclicrei-Zeitniig, Vol. IV, 'So. 4, Vienna, January 23, 1881.] 



Mr. Friedrich von Busse, the head of the wholesale fish-house at 

 Geestemiinde, and owner of the large piscicultural establishment at 



*"Eia Entrepot embryonirter Eier aller edlen FiscbgattuDgen." — Translated by 

 Herma>' Jacobson, 



