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REMARKS FOLLOWING MR. GUNCKEL'S 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HON. 



EMERY DAVIS POTTER. 



Mr. Cheney : Mr. President, Mr. Giinckel's paper 

 on Judge Potter has recalled several things to my 

 mind, and among them is the fact that Ohio has been 

 peculiarly favored in the history of fish culture in 

 many respects. Dr. Theodatus Garlick, the father of 

 fish culture in this countr}^, was an Ohio man ; also 

 Dr. Sterling, probably the only American who wit- 

 nessed the experiments in hatching fish artificially in 

 France bj^ Remy and Gehan. Some time after Dr. 

 Sterling's return to Ohio an effort was made to connect 

 him with Dr. Garlick' s experiments. He has denied 

 over and over again that he had anything to do with 

 them. I have three different communications from 

 him, in which he says that he knew nothing about Dr. 

 Garlick' s experiments until called by him into the 

 office to see the first embryo fish hatching in America, 

 very much as Mr. Gunckel has described the event. 



Another matter which Judge Potter's name recalls 

 to me is that a large school of small fish appeared in 

 the lake near Cleveland during the month of March. 

 The fish were caught in large numbers and sold on the 

 streets. Dr. Sterling secured some of the fish and to 

 his surprise found that they were mature fish of the 

 pike family, although only about seven or eight inches 

 long, the females full of nearly ripe spawn ready to be 

 deposited in a few days. The fish had no scales on 

 cheeks or gill covers, and from this fact Dr. Sterling 

 pronounced them an undescribed species, as the pike, 

 the pickerel, and the muscallonge have scales on some 

 portion of cheek or gill covers, and named the fish after 

 Judge Potter. The school of fish disappeared and 

 never returned, and Dr. Sterling's specimens placed 

 outside his library window were stolen b}^ cats, and all 



