A PROCESS FOR PRESERVING THE PEARL-OYSTER FISHERIES 
AND FOR INCREASING THE VALUE OF THE YIELD OF PEARLS 
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By John I. Solomon, B. Sc. 
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Presented before the Fourth International Fishery Congress, held at Wash- 
ington, U. S. A., September 22 to 26, 1908, and awarded the prize of one 
hundred dollars in gold offered by the New York Academy of Sciences for the 
contribution, not entered in competition for any other award, which should 
be judged to have the greatest practical value to the fisheries or fish culture 
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