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quinnat) is a different species from ours, and shows its peculiarity in its 

 development. It has been previously remarked that the young fish, 

 though only just hatched, possesses much more vitality than our salmon. 

 It is more vigorous, lively, and voracious than ours. It is then not as- 

 tonishing that the Californians developed themselves very well in Hiin- 

 ingen, and grew with surprising rapidity. The little one-year-old fishes 

 which Director Haack keeps in a pond for the sake of observation and 

 study are already a span long, quick and lively, whose well-being in our 

 rivers is not to be doubted. A considerable number have been trans- 

 ferred to the Ehine, Danube, and Weser. The new sending will now 

 supply our rivers with the stranger in much greater quantities, and we 

 ♦ owe this to the society of fish-breeders, whose beneficent efforts deserve 

 a much more lively sympathy, as also to Prof. Spencer F. Baird, in 

 Washington, the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries of the United States, 

 who presented to the society, and consequently to Germany, this valua- 

 ble sendinff. 



Deutsche Fischerei- Verein to S. F. Baird. 



BerliNj December Idj 1878. 



Dear Sie : We cannot allow our seventh circular of 1878 to cross the 

 Atlantic without offering our special tribute of thanks to that kind friend 

 in America who has enabled us to proclaim in Mr. Haack's report (No. 

 11) that the introduction of Salmo quinnat into German waters and 

 its domestication may henceforth be considered as in a manner accom- 

 plished. Be pleased, therefore, to accept our renewed assiu'ance that we 

 are fully alive to a sense of your unvaryiiig and helpful courtesy. 



Mr. Mather's skill has again obtained a signal triumph. Very few losses 

 occurred on the road. We may confidently hope that a few weeks hence 

 nearly a quarter of a million young Californiau salmon will be lustily 

 permeating the various river highways of this country. The Danube 

 and its tributaries have claimed our special attention, inasmuch as they 

 possess no migratory salmon and seemed to wait for the arrival of one 

 so constituted as the quinnat. 



We should hail the day, dear sir, when we might be permitted to offer 

 you, for the benefit of American rivers or lakes, any inhabitants of our 

 waters unknown beyond the ocean. 



You will receive copies of a prospectus lately published for the inter- 

 national fishery exhibition of 1880, to which we beg to draw your very 

 especial attention. As we said in our November circular, when forming 

 the scheme of that exhibition, we reckoned chiefly upon the willingness 

 of America to send specimens of that gigantic progress which piscicult- 

 ure and other cognate matters have there achieved. 



