strongly inclined to believe were frequented by salmon, but 

 even if that were not the case he was quite sure that many 

 of her more northerly rivers were adapted to this fish. It 

 was a mere question of temperature and limpidity. The 

 Sacramento river in California, where the atmosphere 

 sometimes rose to 120° in the summer, was at one time 

 overflowing with salmon, though it had been to some 

 extent reduced by over-fishing now. 



Mr. Charles Fryer proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Campbell. He thought it was a very good omen that 

 they had just had a Paper read on the fisheries of New- 

 foundland, with the Secretary of the Chinese Legation in 

 the chair, whilst now they had had a Paper on the fisheries 

 of China with the representative of Newfoundland in the 

 chair. Sir Ambrose Shea had taken occasion to illustrate 

 the proverb that blood was thicker than water, by referring 

 to the undoubted loyalty of the colonists, but he might 

 remark that water had something to do besides separating 

 nations ; they so far united them that all nations were 

 agreed in recognising the importance of the fisheries : the 

 concluding words of this Paper fully exemplified this point, 

 and showed the lesson which might be learnt from the 

 exhibits furnished by different countries. With regard to 

 the fisheries of China, and to the enormous capture of fish 

 there, he should like to ask whether he was right in thinking 

 that the Chinese captured not only mature but immature fish 

 at all times and in every possible manner. He understood 

 that the Chinese in California surprised the Americans 

 by the wonderfully small fish which they caught and ate, 

 and if the same habit prevailed with the three hundred 

 millions of Chinese in their own country, and they were 

 continually catching these small fish in season and out of 

 season, it afforded a strong argument against the possibility 



