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F ofessor Reighard: We made only three hauls in Lake 

 Erie, those were made just after a storm. We were storm-l)ound 

 there a great deal, and we only had two days to work in. We 

 found a good deal more than we did in Lake St. Clair or in Lake 

 Michigan. Just what the relative amounts were is given, T think, 

 in the report. I think in those three hauls we got about three 

 times as much in Lake Erie as in the other lakes. Of course, 

 this was in the west end of Lake Erie, where the water was shal- 

 low, and where you would expect more. 



Mr. Stranahan: Would that come under the head of plank- 

 ton poor? 



Professor Reighard: Yes, it would still come under the head 

 of plankton poor. 



Mr. Bryant: 1 cannot add anything of scientific value to this 

 paper, from the fact that I am unable to do so, as my state of 

 knowledge is hardly up to the point, to enable me to enter 

 into a discussion of this question from a scientific point of 

 view, but 1 am deeply impressed, perhaps with the zeal 

 of a new memljer, with the importance and value of 

 enlisting in the work of this society these scientific in- 

 vestigators, and, for that reason I think our time of 

 meeting, when we come to consider it, should be so adjusted that 

 we can find at liberty and have with us those gentlemen of the 

 various educational institutions of the country who are engaged 

 in this work. The little experience I have had as a member of 

 the commission — making it more of a by-study than anything 

 else, owing to exacting labors in another field of work — have 

 convinced me and I have felt impressed, the more so the more 

 my experience has extended, of the necessity of having more 

 exact scientific knowledge to guide us in the distribution of the 

 fish we propagate. The discussion here to-day has greatly in- 

 terested me. It has opened up to me the possibility that may be 

 reached when these gentlemen, engaged from the standpoint of 

 pure science, not from the point of immediate practical results, 

 have pushed along the line of knowledge until they are able to 

 tell us their views based on an investigation, and their deduc- 

 tions shall coincide with our experience in determining the best 

 methods of adding to the fish product of the country. I have 

 felt impressed, in our experience, which has been somewhat va- 

 ried; we have tried various kinds of fish propagation and distri- 

 bution, transplanting of small fish and of grown fish, I have 

 thought that there must of necessity be a great deal of waste, 



