NOTES AND QUERIES. 



rUnder this Department Heading queries relative to Angling, Ichthyology and Fish Culture, 

 ^ will be answered.] 



Enlargement and Removal. 



It is ^vith pleasure we announce the removal 

 of the publishing and editorial rooms of The 

 American Angler and " The Fishes of North 

 America," to the commodious and elegant 

 Spalding Building, 29-33 West 42nd St. This 

 removal was necessitated by the enlargement 

 of the business ; the Harris Publishing Com- 

 pany being now incorporated with ample 

 capital ; Wm. C. Harris, President ; Richard 

 M. Corwine, Vice-President ; John B. Rogers, 

 Treasurer, and Henry R. Harris, Secretary. 

 The Company will have under its control the 

 business management of the The American 

 Angler and act as sole selling agent for all 

 countries for " The Fishes of North America " 

 by Wm. C. Harris, and will publish, sell and 

 import books devoted to field and water sports. 

 The American Angler will be enlarged, from 

 and after the June number, to double its 

 present size (still retaining its old subscription 

 price, $2.00), and the additional pages will 

 cater to the tastes of the gentleman sportsman 

 who delights in field and covert shooting. 

 This department will be under the direct 

 supervision of Mr. John B. Rogers, with Mr. 

 Wm. C. Harris as managing editor, whose 

 special charge will be, as it has been fo" fifteen 

 years, the angling department of the magazine. 

 One of the large rooms in our new location 

 will be exclusively devoted to the pleasure and 

 comfort of the readers of The American 

 Angler, who are cordially invited to call upon 

 us at any hour from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. and 

 use the full line of sportsman's journals, do- 

 mestic and foreign, which will be on file at all 

 times. In this room is shown the large collec- 

 tion of oil portraits of fishes, the original speci- 

 mens for which were caught on Mr. Harris' 



own rod, and painted before the color tints of 

 the fish had faded or altered in tone. Co;ne 

 and see tis. 



In this and the succeeding issues of The 

 American Angler will be found a directory of 

 those hotels at or near which angling waters 

 and shooting grounds may be found. 



The Delights of Fishing and Its Devotees. 



All kinds of authorities may be found on the 

 subject of fishing from the Roman Emperor, 

 Trajan, who was fond of angling, to His Ex- 

 cellency, Grover Cleveland, who went fishing 

 on Decoration Day. Statesmen, heroes, and 

 philosophers have been wedded to the sport. 

 Lord Nelson was a good fly fisher, and as a 

 proof of his passion for it, continued the sport 

 even with his left hand. Dr. Paley, it is stated 

 by Frank C. Hibbard, was ardently attached 

 to this amusement ; so much so that when the 

 Bishop of Durliam inquired of him when one 

 of his most important works would be finished, 

 he said, with great simplicity and good humor: 

 " My Lord, I shall work steadily at it when the 

 fly-fishing season is over," and the world waited 

 for his "View of the Evidences of Christi- 

 anity." Daniel Webster was so much attached 

 to his fishing tackle that he made special men- 

 tion of it in his will. 



To thoroughly enjoy fishing one must fully 

 appreciate its poetical relations, for, as Sir 

 Humphrey Davy says : "It carries us into the 

 most wild and beautiful scenery of nature ; 

 amongst the mountain lakes and the clear and 

 lovely streams that gush from the higher 

 ranges of elevated hills, or that make their 

 way through the cavities of calcareous strata. 

 How delightful in the early spring, after the 

 dull and tedious time of winter, when the 

 frosts disappear and the sunshine warms the 

 earth and waters, to wander forth by some 

 clear stream, to see the leaf bursting from the 

 purple bud, to scent the bank perfumed by the 

 violet, and enameled, as it were, with the 

 primrose and the daisy ; to wander upon the 



