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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 
Salmonide, 
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 princeps, 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 (Sunapree) charr.’’ 
March 20, 1893. 
Sratep MEETING. 
Mr. Garrerttson in the chair, and about 110 persons present. 
Commander Turo. F. Jewett, 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. 
Starep 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 Srrona Newserry. 
