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DISCUSSION OF MR. BAHTLETT's PAPER. 



Secretary : I want to say before reading this paper that th.- 

 papers and discussions on carp of this Society have excited wide- 

 spread interest, and as Secretary I have received innumerahli 

 letters on the subject, some damning carp not with faint praise, 

 but most eloquently, and a few that favor the cultivation of 

 carp. 



Mr. Titconib : A good many. 



Secretary : Yes. 



Mr. Clark : I have no doubt the members would like to hear 

 from Mr. Kavenel on the carp question. 



Mr. W. De C. Eavenel of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, D, C. : I have nothing to say. I endorse the paper. 



Secretary : J would like to hear Mr. E. W. Blatcli ford's opiii- 

 ion regarding carp — he has eaten them. 



Mr. Blatchford, of Chicago: Mr. President: 1 think it is 

 twenty-eight years this summer since my first trip abroad ; and 

 I took a leisurely trip on the Rhine and was served with a fish 

 for breakfast, 1 could ]iot make out what it was. The waiter was 

 a German, and ho gave me the German name for this fish. My 

 daughter, who was with me, spoke German fluently, and recog- 

 nized the fish as a carp. I was much interested in it. f had 

 heard about the carp, had read al)()ut it, but had never seen one 

 until then. I asked our landlord if he would get me sonu^ : 1 

 wanted to see them; and he said, yes, that he would show me 

 some that afternoon, and I went down and saw them swimming 

 about in an enclosure. He said he had three ways of cooking 

 them, and one of them was very much like the description given 

 by my friend Bartlett, of Quincy ; but they were a delicious fish, 

 and I came home and began to speak about carp ; but I have met 

 few men or women here that did not tuni up their noses at a 

 carjj. But the carp have bwu developed by being placed in wa- 

 ters adapted to them. I believe you can find plenty of streams 

 in this state, and Xew York, and in the west, that would not be 

 fitted for car]): ])ut I have lived in Quincy, my parents lived 

 there, and 1 know something about the interest that is taken in 

 lisb there on the Mississi])i)i river: and have heard of them in 

 Illinois, but I have never heard such an excellent statement as 



