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which would seem to indicate also that they were a seed-fish, 

 seeking, as the salmon does, a certain river, or parts of the 

 river, for spawning. Now if that be the fact, and the fish are 

 preferable in quality to the salmo fontinalis, it is certainly worth 

 the attention of the fish culturists that they may be induced to 

 cultivate these fish equally with those inland fresh-water trout. 

 In all the rivers and streams having access to the salt water 

 containing brook-trout, I find that those river and brook trout 

 will go to the salt water for change of diet and for better nour- 

 ishment, but I do not think that it follows from that that they 

 are identical with the sea-trout. The point I want to make is 

 simply this, that if they are better than the brook-trout, we 

 ought to pay more attention to their preservation. 



Mr. Hallock offered a resolution thanking the proprietors of 

 the New York Aquarium. 



Mr. Blackford : In seconding the motion, Mr. President, I 

 feel that I ought to say a little more than is expressed in the 

 resolution : that, as the resolution expresses it, this Association 

 had the honor of first calling attention to the necessity of an 

 Aquarium in New York city, and it was hoped that a public 

 enterprise might be started which would be a free, public resort, 

 somewhere in the neighborhood of Central Park ; but as the 

 time was not propitious for such an establishment, our friend, 

 Mr. Coup, resolved to start an enterprise on his own responsi- 

 bility. While, of course, he seeks to make the Aquarium 

 remunerative to himself as an investment, yet in doing that he 

 has manifested so much public spirit, and so much liberality 

 towards educating the people of this city up to a proper appre- 

 ciation of the study of icthyology and of fish culture, that I 

 think we ought to take official action on this resolution, and 

 recommend the Aquarium to the hearty support of the people 



