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is fertilized, is contrary to all other rules of nature, and we some 

 of us know by actual experience it is not so. 



In this connection I would like, while I have the floor, to offer 

 a resolution, which I hope will meet the views of the association. 

 It has a bearing somewhat on the line of our discussion, and I 

 may not have another opportunity to present it. 



Resolved, That the American Fisheries Society learns with 

 sincere regret of the deplorable action of the Legislature, of Mich- 

 igan, at its recent session, in so cutting down the appropriations 

 to the Michigan Fish Commission as to seriously cripple the great 

 work it had undertaken and had so well in hand, of restoring and 

 building up the conuuercial fisheries of the Great Lakes. 



Taking into consideration the extensive operations which that 

 commission has carried on for several years, this Society regards 

 such action as a matter of more than mere local interest, and of 

 general public concern, from the tendency to discourage legiti- 

 mate appropriations to such work in other States, and to dis- 

 hearten fish culturists everywhere. 



We sincerely trust this false economy will be of short duration, 

 and that with the anticipated coming of better times liberal ap- 

 propriations will again be granted for the purpose of carrying 

 this great undertaking to a successful issue. 



Mr. Post: I move its adoption. 



The motion was duly seconded and unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Clark: There is just one thing I want to bring out in 

 regard to the impregnation of the ^gg in reply to what Mr. Post 

 says. I made some experiments in this connection, and from 

 those experiments I cannot indorse what Mr. Post brings to us 

 from Prof. Reighard' I have done it with whitefish, and that cer- 

 tainly leads me to believe that the impregnation naturally is not 

 very good. I think our friend, Mr. Nevin, has got it too strong 

 altogether, but we do know it is not possible to largely impreg- 

 nate the eggs in water. We now use the dry method. We know 

 that when you take whitfish eggs in a quantity of water, the per- 

 centage of impregnation is lower, according to the quantity of 

 water used with the milt. 



Mr. Post: I guess there is no doubt about that, in artificial 

 propagation., 



Mr. Clark : If there is no other reason why spawning under 

 natural relations would give us a lower percentage of impregna- 

 tion, certainly the reason of spawning in open water, where the 



