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war with Great Britain, manned our war ships and swarmed 

 in every sea on privateers, and who, at all times, whenever 

 the occasion demanded it, have "rallied 'round the flag" 

 to maintain and uphold it against all aggression. But I 

 will say that this is a matter that should not be passed 

 unnoticed, and is one that should prompt us to make an 

 additional effort, if need be, in gathering and j)lacing on 

 exhibition at the World's Fair all that may tend to illus- 

 trate every phase and condition of those industries in which 

 we are especially interested, and for the conservation and 

 maintenance of which we are in duty bound to exert our- 

 selves to the utmost of our ability. 



KENNERLY'S SALMON. 

 By Tarleton H. Bean. 



The smallest known of the Pacific salmons was first de- 

 scribed by Dr. George Suckley, in 1861 ,- under the name 

 of Salmo Kennerlyi — Kennerly's Trout, or Chiloweyuck 

 red salmon trout. In 1862 f Dr. Theodore Gill proposed 

 for this species the new generic name Hypsifario, because 

 of its "compressed, body, i)rojecting snout," etc. The re- 

 markable changes in the genus Oncorliynclius during the 

 course of spawning were at that time less known than at 

 present. About 1^82 Dr. David S. Jordan examined the 

 Salmonidce in the National Museum, in Washington, D. C, 

 and came to the conclusion that Kennerly' s salmon is iden- 

 tical with the common red salmon, or blue back of the 

 region {OncorJiynchus nerka),a.n(i this belief was generally 

 accepted as final. The material bearing on this relation- 



* Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, page 307. 

 t Pioc. Acad. Nat Sci., Phila., 1862, page/330. 



