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secure requisite facilities for the introduction of shad, black bass, 

 and other fish. His remarks are given more fully, upon a 

 repetition of them, in the report for the succeeding day. 



At two o'clock the meeting took a recess till afternoon. 



The presiding officer submitted a number of letters from 

 absent members unable to leave home. 



A letter was received from Mr. George E. Ward, on behalf 

 of W. C. Coup, offering the Association the use of rooms at 

 Mr. Coup's new Aquarium at Thirty-fifth street and Broadway, 

 New York city, extending to the Association the free use of a 

 room in the Aquarium building, for the holding of meetings, the 

 establishment of a library, or other purposes desired by this 

 body. 



The President remarked that the idea suggested by this offer 

 seemed to him to be a good one, and commended it to the 

 Association. On motion, the thanks of the Association were 

 ordered to be returned to Mr. Coup for his generous offer, and 

 the invitation was accepted. 



The presiding officer introduced the subject of the stocking 

 of rivers and other streams with black bass, the adaptation of this 

 fish to still water and the strong currents of rivers, and called 

 upon Mr. Seth Green, as a representative of the Empire State, 

 to respond. 



Mr. Seth Green, Superintendent of the New York State 

 Fisheries, in response, spoke of the success which had attended 

 the efforts of the Commissioners of the State of New York in 

 stocking the waters of that State. As an illustration, Mr. Green 

 cited Lake Canandaigua, where, in 1871, the stock of salmon- 

 trout was small, but where, at this time, since re-stocking, it is 

 no unusual thing to make a catch of fifteen or twenty in a day. 



