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breed will be kept pure, for I am not in favor of hybridizing a flsb that 

 is good enougli, or, in fact, any fish nuless it is merely in the way of 

 scientific experiment. 



Ou February 15, 1^84, we received a box of brown-trout eggs from 

 Herr von Behr, containing 16,000 of the large kind, lialf of which were 

 consigned to Mr. E. G. Blackford, iS'ew Yorlc City, and the remainder to 

 me; and 54,000 of the small kind, 32,000 of which were for me, and 22,000 

 for Mr. Blackford. Of the large variety I sent 3,000 to the New York 

 station at Caledonia, 1,000 to the United States station at Northville, 

 Mich., and 2,000 to Central Station at Washington, D. C. Of the small 

 variety we sent 10,000 to Caledonia, 4,000 to Northville, and 9,000 to 

 Central Station at Washiugton. The distribution of fry from Cold 

 Spring Harbor will be found in the following tables. 



On February 25, 1884, there were received as a present to the Ameri- 

 can Fish-Cultural Association from the Fishing Gazette of London, by 

 its editor, R. B. Marston, esq., three lots of brown trout ; 5,000 from Mr. 

 Andrews's "best fish;" 3,000 from the Itchen; and 2,000 from the 

 Wey 5 all from the hatchery- of Mr. Andrews, at Guilford, Surrey. These 

 eggs arrived in good condition, and were hatched and distributed. Those 

 we retained cannot be distinguished from the same species from Ger- 

 many. The White Star Line of steamers brought them from Enghind 

 free of charge. The letters below relate to the eggs from Germany : 



"A box of European trout eggs {Sal))iofario) arrived last night, and 

 was forwarded this morning to Wytheville by Mr. Moore, who goes there 

 to make the distribution of California trout ; and we hope to be able to 

 give a good account of them. We will retain enough for breeders, and 

 make a single plant of the rest in some suitable stream in the vicin- 

 ity of the hatchery." [M. McDonald, chief of division of distribution, 

 W^ashiugton, D. C, February 23, 1884.! 



" The German trout eggs arrived February 18 in prime order. Very 

 few dead. They hatched about a week ago." [Frank N. Clark, North- 

 ville, Mich., March 24, 1884.] 



On February 24, 1885, there was received from Herr von Behr, presi- 

 dent of the Deutsche Fischerel- Venin, a case of 40,000 eggs of brown 

 trout ; half of them were consigned to Mr. E. G. Blackford, and half to 

 myself. The eggs were in fair condition, 1,020 being dead on unpack- 

 ing, and 2,594 were lost before hatching. Of the fry, 8,131 died before 

 distribution, leaving 28,000 fry, of which nearly 19,000 were distributed. 

 See table. 



B. Saibling {Salmo salvelinns) — On January 10, 1881, Mr. Carl 

 Schuster, burgomaster of Freiburg, Germany, announced that he had 

 sent 00,000 saibling eggs by the North German Lloyds steamer Mosel, 

 of January 8, consigned to the U. S. Fish Commission. These reached 

 New York on January 22. They were forwarded the next day to Mr. 

 A. H. Powers, Plymouth, N. H., which point they reached on the 24th. 

 The entire loss while crossing the ocean and being transported to the 



