DISCUSSION. : 
Professor BROWN GOODE (United States Commis- 
sioner) said he had listened with very great interest to the 
Paper which Mr. Milne Home had presented, and he rose 
to say a few words, which were perhaps invited by the 
closing sentences of the address, concerning what America 
had been doing in the way of salmon culture. He was 
led to do that by the fact that certain documents had been 
distributed from Canada, which had rather a tendency to 
depreciate what had been done in fish culture, not only in 
Europe, but in the United States. It had been said that 
fish culture was only an experiment, and had not been 
attended with commercial success: he, however, wished to 
say that it was in no sense an experiment, but that in the 
United States and in Canada it had been a decided success, 
and was so recognised by every one. It was not likely 
that the American Congress, or the Canadian Government, 
would for a period of ten or twelve years keep on making 
annual appropriations for fish culture if they were not 
satisfied that it was not only a success from a scientific 
stand-point, but a success from a commercial point of 
view. In the United States the general Government had 
appropriated considerably more than a million dollars, and 
the individual States a sum almost as great. Up to 1798 
large numbers of salmon were caught in the Connecticut 
river, but until 1870 the fish disappeared entirely from 
the river, and until about 1875 no salmon whatever were 
seen in the river. In 1875, however, the salmon began 
to appear, and this was the direct result of the planting of 
a large number of eggs in that river three or four years 
previously. Then again in the case of Sacramento River 
