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the Columbia River alone yields more salmon, four times over, 

 than does the whole of England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales. 



Fearing to tax your patience, I shall now close, repeating 

 that no one in a casual way, without careful study, could imagine 

 the vast number of objects included within this group, and what 

 a fund of information and instruction is to be found in it. 



This grand exhibition, then, in its widest sense, being founded 

 on the broad and great principle of the exchange of thought, 

 that fractional portion represented of Group V. may have been 

 of great advantage to other countries in affording them ample 

 opportunities to study our methods of fish capture, while in 

 exchange we may take from them many approved ways of pre- 

 paring fish food. 



As to fish culture, there are so many distinguished gentlemen 

 here present, men whose reputations are known all over the 

 world, that it would be worse than presumptuous on my part to 

 speak about a work of which they are scientifically and practically 

 the great masters, only I think that they will agree with me in 

 coming to this conclusion, that in fish culture we in the United 

 States and in Canada have performed greater feats and have 

 arrived at broader, larger, and, above all, more useful results than 

 in the Old World. If fish culture was discovered in Europe, it 

 is here that fish culture has taken its most practical development. 



Prof. James W. Milner, Assistant United States Fish Com- 

 missioner, in special charge of the work for Shad Hatching, 

 reported as follows : 



Mr. Chairman: The collections of the United States National 

 Museum in the Government Building of the International 

 Exhibition, or, as our countrymen have chosen to term it, 

 "Centennial Exhibition," relating to the fisheries, are arranged 

 under the following classifications : 



