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for one wrote on the antiquities of the ancient city of Ripon, 

 and Captain Walbran himself wrote the very best work on 

 Pacific place-names in existence. Dr. G. M. Dawson had done 

 some B. C. plankton work before mine, and that famous 

 scientist generously placed his collection in my hands to de- 

 scribe with my own large collection, but all perished in a fire 

 which devastated the west parliamentary building in 1897. 



Inspector LaTouche Tupper. — Inspector R. LaTouche 

 Tupper deserves mention for his splendid work as inspector 

 on Lake Winnipeg and Manitoba waters. In his hospitable 

 home on the Red River, at Selkirk, he had a fine library of 

 works on fish and fisheries, and had remarkable scientific and 

 literary tastes. Captain Dunn, who for many years cruised 

 the Great Lakes, also did courageous and effective work in fish- 

 eries conservation. All the officers I have just referred to are 

 now dead; but the Department has on its staff some men of 

 special ability, one of whom I must mention, viz., Mr. John 

 J. Cowie, recognized by all who have any knowledge of Ca- 

 nadian fisheries, as an eminent expert with unrivalled experi- 

 ence and knowledge of fish-curing methods and products. The 

 oyster fisheries owe much to the skill and labor, for nearly 

 thirty years, of Mr. Ernest Kemp, a member of a family prom- 

 inent in English oyster culture on the famed Whitstable beds 

 for two hundred years. No government service ever pos- 

 sessed abler and more indefatigable men than the officers I 

 have referred to. The fisheries owe more than can be esti- 

 mated to the valuable work they did in the special lines to 

 which they devoted their lives. 



General Summary of Federal Fishery Administra- 

 tion. — Of various branches of activity, such as publicity 

 work, improvement of cured and pickled fish, better gov- 

 ernment-assisted fish transportation and other efforts, many 

 now in progress, I cannot speak. It must suffice to quote a 

 summarized statement of such activities from a lengthy ar- 

 ticle of mine, recently published by the London Times, in the 

 "Times Book of Canada," which is an expansion of the article 



