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cessfully, grown as quickly, and in a general way 

 brought into such condition as in that Aquarium. 



Dr. Bean then reads paper. 



Mr. Cheney then read a paper on "The Work of 

 the Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission of the 

 State of New York." 



The President : Gentlemen, if there is no discus- 

 sion desired upon the paper, no remarks to be offered, 

 we will proceed to the next paper, which is b}' Dr. B. 

 W. James on "The Interstate Protection of Food 

 Fish." 



Dr. James : I think a very important point is the 

 protection of the fish from an interstate point of view. 

 We had some discussion on the subject some years 

 ago, and I brought up the point that there had been 

 cases where the Government has decided that it is un- 

 constitutional to pass any United States law ; and 3'et 

 it seems that there ought to be some measure by which 

 all the states could be reached. The practice of hav- 

 ing the states make separate laws does not seem to 

 work very well. I simply want to throw out some 

 ideas to keep the matter up in the minds of the people 

 interested ; not that I want to give any information to 

 those working in the direction of propagating fish, my 

 idea being in the way of protecting the food fishes of 

 the states and country at large. If my views do not 

 coincide with those held by you, you are at liberty to 

 discuss them as freely as you wish. 



Dr. James then read his paper. 



Dr. James : In the Delaware River some years ago 

 the promiscuous fishing reduced the amount of shad, 

 as I believe has been stated on this floor by Mr. Ford, 

 to a valuation of about seventy-five thousand dollars. 

 During the year before last I think it had reached a 

 valuation of some four hundred thousand dollars, and 

 last year, I have it from Mr. Ford, who is our commis- 

 sioner, it amounted to over five hundred and twenty-five 



