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the female averaging 1,200 eggs to the pound, or 200 more than 

 the brook trout. It is also a singularly rapid grower where 

 smelt food abounds. The extreme weight known to have been 

 attained in Sunapee is about eight pounds, although accounts 

 exist of much larger fish in this water, and of specimens from 

 Dan Hole and Flood's Ponds, weighing from fifteen to twenty 

 pounds. 



The Sunapee saibling takes live bait readily, and affords the 

 angler superb sport if the tackle be light. With a seven-ounce 

 rod and 200 feet of line, the killing of a five-pounder from a 

 sail-boat, running across the wind, implies a delightful excite- 

 ment that, to be appreciated, must be experienced. Three tons 

 of this fish have been taken with hook and line in a single 

 season, at Sunapee. The flesh is of a light salmon color, and 

 when in its perfection excels in delicacy that of all other 

 Salmonida;. 



We most confidently recommend this charr to the attention 

 of State Commissioners interested in placing a valuable and 

 easily propagated food-fish within reach of the people. It is 

 facile princepfi, from its rush at the cast smelt to the finish at the 

 breakfast table. Those who best know it, most enthusiastically 

 endorse, with a slight amendment, Professor Jordan's 

 apothegm : "Nothing higher can be said of a salmonoid than 

 that it is a (Sunapee) charr." 



March 20, 1893. 

 Stated Meeting. 



Mr. Gakrettson in the chair, and about 110 persons present. 



Commander Theo. F. Jewell, U. S. N., delivered an illus- 

 trated lecture on "Torpedoes." 



At the close of the address a vote of thanks was tendered the 

 lecturer. 



March 27, 1893. 

 Stated Meeting. 



The meeting was held in the Law School of Columbia College, 

 in conjunction with the Scientific Alliance of New York, in 

 honor of the late Professor Joun Stronc; Newbekuy. 



