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Mr. H. Whitaker : It is a very difficult thing to dis- 

 cuss a paper of the scope of this paper on the spur of 

 the moment, and it must be left for larger considera- 

 tion until we have had time to read and digest it. 

 There are some things which the writer states that 

 are certainly antagonistic to the views that are com- 

 monly held. Not more than a year or two ago, a very 

 skilled physician, Dr. Feurth, of Germany, settled in 

 Detroit. A year or so after he came to Detroit to 

 reside, he came and introduced himself as a gentleman 

 who had been interested in fish culture abroad, and 

 since that time I have found reason to know that he 

 was a practical man in fish culture. I found also that 

 he was familiar with the literature of this country 

 regarding fisheries and fish culture. There was noth- 

 ing, apparently, that had not been brought to his atten- 

 tion. 



There is a remark in this paper that is entirely 

 opposed to what Dr. Feurth told me with regard to 

 the brown trout. His familiarity with the subject was 

 such that I inquired of him what temperature of water 

 they were best calculated to be put into. He assured 

 me and urged me to have some put into our rivers in 

 the extreme southern portion of the state, and he 

 instanced one or two places in Germany where the 

 brown trout had been introduced into water at a tem- 

 perature of ^0° in summer, and he said they thrived 

 beyond all expectation. We have made the experi- 

 ment this year, and yet the writer of the paper says 

 they will not thrive in warm water. It makes no dif- 

 ference about the exact temperature ; the writer in- 

 tended to intimate that they were not calculated for 

 warm waters, irrespective of exact degree. 



Dr. Bean : This paper refers to California salmon. 



Mr. H. Whitaker : I am speaking of the brown 

 trout. If the remarks meant anything, it is that they 

 are better adapted to cold than to warm waters. But 



