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the second Tuesday in February, 1873, at their New York city office, 

 No. 10 Warren street. 



It was also resolved that a committee of three be appointed to 

 arrange with Prof. A. S, Bickmore, Director of the American Museum 

 Ox Natural History at Central Park, New York, for a permanent 

 exhibition in the museum of fishes and implements used in hsh culture, 

 without expense to the association. Messrs. George S. Page, C. H. 

 Farnham, and A. S. Hatch were appointed on this committee. 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of Washington, D. C, Mr. Samuel Wilmot, 

 of Ontario, Canada, and Prof. Albert S. Bickmore, New York, were 

 elected honorary members of the association. 



The executive committee, together with the other officers of the 

 association, were appointed a committee to prepare an order of pro- 

 ceedings for the next annual meeting, after which the society adjourned. 



The following items have come under the notice of the secretary, 

 and are here communicated : 



Longevity of Teout. 



The age of the venerable trout which was mentioned in this column 

 a few weeks ago as having been examined by Mr. Frank Buckland, 

 has been testified to in the following terms : 



The undersigned have lived about Dunlop. House for twenty years 

 and upwards. They herein certify that to the best of their belief the 

 trout sent to F. Buckland is the same trout that was put in the well 

 by Thomas Young twenty-four years ago, viz., IS-tS. 



(Signed)' ANDEEW STEVENSON. 



JAMES EOBERTSON. 

 Dunlop House, Januarij 20, 1872. 



This is tlie oldest well-authenticated instance of trout life that we 

 have heard of, although there are said to be pike and carp in private 

 ponds in Europe that are proved by the dates on the gold rings in 

 their tins to be over a century old, and Gesner speaks of a pike which 

 was 267 years old. 



American " Salmo Fontinalis " in England. 

 Mr. Buckland, in Land and Water, makes this allusion to the 

 American brook trout in his nniseum : " The following is a catalogue 

 of the eggs and fry: Salmon fontinalis, or American brook trout, 

 brought over from Mr. Wilmot's establishment, Newcastle, Ontario, 

 Canada, by Mr. Parnaby, of Troutdale Fishery, Keswick. These are 

 beautiful little fish, of about three-quarters of an inch long. They 



