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It is rare to find the blue, yellow, goggle-eyed, wall-eyed, or white 

 pike (all the same fish, Liicioperca, only variations of the same species, 

 the result of difit'erence in their surroundings, neither does the difference 

 in structure amount to anything more, and perhaps not as much) on 

 tlie market averaging more than H pounds from the upper lakes, per- 

 haps 2 pounds, and all scarce at that, 10 to 14 cents a pound undressed. 

 Twenty-five years ago you could buy a 15-j)0und fish for a quarter of a 

 dollar, and pay a good price at that. 



Cleveland, Ohio, 3Iay 27, 1884. 



116.— SPAWNING IN OERITffANY OF THE IvAROE-ITIOUTIIED B£.A€K 

 BAS» SENT FKOxll THE UNITED STATES IN 18Sii. 



By MAX YON DEM BORNE. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Bau-d.] 



You will recollect that you kindly sent to me, in the fall of 1882, by 

 Mr. George Eckerdt, 7 large-mouthed and 75 small mouthed black bass. 

 In consequence of the long passage the greater part of the lot died, so 

 that I had this spring 3 large-mouthed old fish, and 10 small-mouthed 

 two-year-old bass. 



To-day I had the satisfaction of finding that the three large fish 

 had spawned, and the pond actually swarms with fry. I have canght 

 with a small net more than 2,000 and have put them into another pond 

 which is free from other fish. 



I have no doubt that next spring the small-mouthed bass will spawn, 

 and that the experiment will be successful.* 



Berneuchen, Germany, June 15, 1884. 



lir TRANSPORTATION OF CliAIUS ANI> OYSTERS, 



By R. E. C. STEARNS. 



[From a letter to Richards & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal.] 



In reply to your question as to the best method for transporting clams 

 and oysters, I would say as to clams that they are in my opinion more 

 difficult to handle than oysters, and further, that the abundance of sev- 

 eral varieties of clams on the west coast of America, from and in Puget 

 Sound south along the coast at many points to San Diego, would not 

 warrant the exj)eriment. 



* Another effort was made this year to send black bass to von dem Borne in charge 

 of Captain Briand, of the French line of steamers from New York. Mr. Blackford de- 

 livered 40 bass, March 26, on the steamer with orders to leave them at the Havre 

 Aquarium subject to order of von dem Borne. Unfortunately the fish all died at 

 sea in transit. — C. W. S. 



