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are filled hy young men iclw, after having completed their education at some 

 college^ desire to devote themselves to the science of zoology^ more especially 

 in a field ichere that science not only promises to supply many of the daily 

 tcants of the masses, but where it has already accomplished a great deal. 

 They are the men who use for investigations in the field of embryology the 

 exceedingly valuable scientific material furnished by the numerous stages of 

 development of fish which may be observed in practical fish culture. We 

 may doubtless look for important communicatioyis relative to the results of 

 these scientific investigations. 



" Round this staff of scientists there has gradually been formed an en- 

 tire corps of officers who are thoroughly versed in the more mechanical woric 

 of fish culture and fish transportation. The catching of mature fish, the 

 impregnation of the eggs, the care of them during their development, and the 

 raising of the young fish can only be intrusted to experienced persons, 

 although a scientific education is not required for this rcorlc. 



" In Avliat manner can the Netherlands derive the g^reatest possible 

 benefit from the lessons taught by the American exhibit at the Loudon 

 Fishery Exposition? Certainly not by leaving fish culture, iii the future, 

 l)rincipally in the hands of private individuals. In this way we may 

 get' a number of establishments which may be placed on a line with 

 establishments for raising chickens and pigeons, but the public interest 

 is not advanced thereby. For this purpose it is absolutely necessary, 

 as has bt>en mentioned above, that the Government take the matter in 

 hand and follow out a carefully i)repared programme." 



Germaivy. — The verdict of Germany bears no double interpretation 

 when we examine the trophy awarded to our Commissioner of Fisheries 

 at the Exhibition of 1880, and remember the words of Herr von Behr, the 

 president of the Deutscher Fischerei Verein, that it was given to him 

 as " the first fish cnlturist in the world." 



It will do no harfu, however, to quote also from the report of Director 

 Haack, the head of the imperial hatching establishment at Hiiningen, 

 the paragraph relating to the American section at Berlin. 



" Everything which America had sent was on a magnificent scale. 

 We shall therefore only * * * admit the truly superb scientific 

 colle(!tion, filling several rooms, and finally devote sometime to the de- 

 ])artment of i)isciculture. Much of the apparatus was already known 

 to us, as for about three years we have imitated the Americans in this re- 

 spect. * * * Lostin astonishment, we stand before the large model 

 of the Fish Hawk, a large steamship specially constructed by theAmer- 

 icau Government for purposes of pisciculture. * * * With all our 

 piscicultural eflbrts we must confess that we felt very small when view- 

 ing this grand American exhibit, and the magnificent results obtained 

 in America are a sufficient guarantee that this is no 'American humbug.' 

 For the present we can certainly do no better than to strain every nerve 

 and imitate the example set us by tbe Americans." 



