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and he had heard the results of my journey. These, for- 

 tunately, were of a satisfactory character, and he went to 

 sleep that night in a much more cheerful frame of mind 

 than for some time previously. The next morning, to the 

 suprise of all, Mr. Ford appeared at the breakfast table and 

 announced his intention of going to the river to fish, and in spite 

 of protests he did slowly take his way to the river, accompanied 

 by his wife ,and there he was rowed about for a few hours while 

 he fished. He was so weak then that the last of three or four 

 medium-sized bass so thoroughly wearied him that assistance 

 had to be given for the landing. This relation may seem to some 

 to be trivial, but it is a striking illustration of the passion which 

 dominated nearly tlie whole of his life, and which led him almost 

 with his dying breath to request that he be buried on the little 

 hill overlooking the river and the stretch of water that he had 

 fished for twenty-five years. 



Mr. Ford was an enthusiastic fisherman of the best type. He 

 loved all that was good in the world, and while he hated and 

 despised evil, he neither hated nor despised those who, through 

 environment or other causes, committed evil. He pitied the being 

 while he abhorred the act. It has been my lot to he l^rought into 

 contact with many and diverse phases of human character, but 

 I never intimately knew a man with a purer life or a better na- 

 ture. A great city daily, in commenting editorially on the death 

 of Mr. Ford, likened him to Isaac Walton, the greatest exemplar 

 of the gentle art. It was a happy thought and an apt comparison. 

 There was a remarkablv close resemblance between the two as 

 we are fond of jMcturing the mind and character of the great 

 English angler. Mr. Ford lived his life as a good man should. 

 He tried to do good for his fellow man and those who came into 

 contact with him were the gainer thereby, and the wc^rld was 

 the better for his having lived in it. His death caused a distinct 

 loss to fish culture. 



President: It seems to me that Mr. Ford's life and character, 

 have l)een so full\- ])resented in Mr. Median's paper that nothing 

 further remains to be said. Mr. Ford was a member who de- 

 voted much of his time to the success of the American Fisheries 

 Society, and he was a member whom we had all come to respect, 

 and his memory is one we shall all cherish. 



We will now listen to a paper by Air. J. W. Titcomb on the 

 Collection of Wild Trout Ova; Methods of Collection and 

 Utility. 



