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necessary to go again. He thought the experiments 
which had been successful ought to be allowed to balance 
those which had not. Experiments in fish culture in 
Europe, especially in Holland and Germany, had yielded 
exceedingly promising results. Mr. Whitcher had singled 
out two rivers in Canada, out of many, for the purpose of 
supporting his view that fish culture had not been a 
success, and had stated that although a large quantity of 
salmon was taken out of certain waters in 1871 there was 
none in 1881. Mr. Whitcher, as Commissioner of Canada, 
was charged with the preparation of a report to the 
Canadian Government upon the state of the fisheries. 
The report for 1882, which surely ought to have been 
within Mr. Whitcher’s access when he published the 
circular, stated that the saimon fisheries nearly all over 
Canada, had been much better in 1882 than within 
the preceding ten years ; and other testimony showed that 
there had been a magnificent improvement. He knew 
that Mr. Wilmot, who had been criticised somewhat in 
the circular, would feel some diffidence in speaking on the 
point, but he thought he owed it to him to point out that 
the official documents proved that fish culture had not been 
in any sense a failure, but a decided success. 
Mr. WILMoT (Canadian Commissioner) said it was with 
considerable diffidence that he rose to make any remarks 
upon that important question. He had been much 
delighted by the very instructive paper on salmon fisheries, 
a subject which of course required a great deal of time to 
enter into fully. Mr. Milne Home, on the opening of the 
Exhibition, visited the Canadian Court, and he felt sure, 
from the way in which he expressed his views, that he was 
extremely delighted with the modus operandi of fish cul- 
ture in Canada. A few days ago Mr. Home called upon 
