Fish Cultitrists Association. 



by doing so. I think Prof. Coup is entitled to everything that 

 is in the resolution, because he has done a vast amount of good, 

 not only to the City of New York, but to the whole continent, 

 in getting up this Aquarium. I think he is entitled to all the. 

 thanks and to all the eulogium you can give him for having 

 started this ; and although it may have been, in the first place, 

 of a private nature, yet it is doing a vast amount of public good. 



On motion of Mr. Phillips it was voted that when the Con- 

 vention adjourn, they adjourn to meet at the Aquarium on the 

 second Wednesday of February, 1878. 



Mr. Mather : I wish to say a few words with reference to the 

 transportation of fish. We have in the tanks now some half a 

 dozen whitefish which were brought from the Detroit River. 

 The whitefish has been regarded as one of those fishes that it is 

 impossible to transport any great distance. I never attempted 

 it before, but I know of many others that have. I was up on 

 the river a short time ago, and we got some. Thinking that it 

 would be impossible, under ordinary circumstances, to transport 

 them and get them here, I managed it in this manner : My 

 assistant, whom I left there, I instructed to fill cans with snow — 

 after the proper amount of water was put in — to put in the 

 snow so thick as to chill them, and partly stupify them, and the 

 snow would also act as a sort of cushion by which the scales 

 would be kept from rubbing off ; and they have been brought 

 here successfully. I wish to make the process known for the 

 benefit of future transporters of whitefish. 



Mr. Porter : I have frequently carried trout in snow, and 

 I think it is a good way to carry them. A fisherman with 

 snow can carry trout almost any distance ; whereas, if you have 

 ice ever so fine, von cannot carry them. I have never lost any 

 scarcely when I carred them in snow. 



