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after, so tliis society will be informed as to what the meaning of 

 it is, provided it should prove to be a permanent thing. It affects 

 not alone Michigan but the standing of all our interests in fish 

 culture, because the circumstances that surround the temporary 

 suspension of this work, which perhaps may become permanent, 

 in my own judgment affects every single commission in existence 

 in this country to-day, and to that extent the other commissions 

 are interested in this subject. It is a question, I may say, without 

 going into the matter very fully, which surrounds the success of 

 fish planting generally. It is a question of the proper protection 

 of fish and in every sense affects the question of fish planting. 

 A proper administration and application of public funds should 

 have in view the idea that the work done shall be followed with 

 good results. That in a nutshell is the ques.tion, and I say it is 

 likely to come before you later on and it seems to me it is a 

 matter that ought to interest us all. 



It will be necessary for us to make some recognition of the 

 death of two very prominent members of this organization in the 

 last year, the death of each of whom will cause vacancies in this 

 society that it will Ije hard to fill. It falls with peculiar solemnitv 

 upon those of us who have long been memljers of this associa- 

 tion and who had come to know such men as Mr. Ford, of Penn- 

 sylvania, and Mr. Fitzhugh, of Michigan. Mr. Ford was one 

 of the foremost men in the promotion of the interests of fish 

 culture in his own State. He was one of the men who contrib- 

 uted most largely to the success of this Association. He was 

 a conscientious gentleman, an expert fish culturist, a man of 

 broad views and a man who has given this society a standing 

 in his own community and wherever he was known. It will 

 become necessary for us to take some steps to properly recognize 

 his death. I understand the gentleman from Pennsylvania has 

 a memorial which will be offered at the proper time. 



We have also lost another member who was one of the finest 

 characters I have ever known. He was a Michigan man; he 

 was a gentleman angler, a man whose heart was as gentle and 

 as good as a woman's, a man whom it was a plesaure to know 

 as a personal friend, a man who "wore his heart upon his sleeve" 

 for his friends, a gentleman who was connected more directly 

 than any other man in the United States with the identification of 

 what is now known as the Michigan grayling, Mr. D. H. Fitz- 

 hugh, of Bay City. It was my pleasure to know him intimately, 

 and his death came to me almost as a personal bereavement. I 

 hope that a proper recognition will be made when the time comes 



