90 ^ Fortieth Annual Meeting 



phases of fish culture and fishery conservation. He in short 

 grasped and fully appreciated the fact that the great prob- 

 lems of fish culture and their relations to one of our most 

 important food resources, are ocean deep and earthwide in 

 their significance and application, and that within a few 

 generations the solution of these great problems will be of 

 tremendous import to the human race. 



And thus it was that he grew to be one of the most con- 

 spicuous and commanding figures in fish cultural circles in 

 this country. More than that, he was a vital, virile, living, 

 dominating force in fish culture, the influence of whose 

 work and teachings and ideas and personality reached into 

 the field of fish-cultural endeavor everywhere, not only in 

 this country but abroad. And these are the more signifi- 

 cant, the more potent, the more convincing, the more com- 

 pelling reasons why Frank Clark's place in the world of 

 fish culture is not going to be filled. 



And now I am moved to say a word of a more tender and 

 personal nature, for I believe that my relations with our 

 late beloved friend brought me closer to the bottom of his 

 heart than did those of any other living man. 



It was my good fortune to be born and to grow to years 

 of manhood in the same village as our late associate, and 

 although he was a few years my senior, our intimacy began 

 at an early age. From that time on, but more especially dur- 

 ing the past thirty years, our friendship was of the most 

 cordial and intimate nature. Both in a personal sense and 

 in the business in which our interests were common, we were 

 friends through thick and thin, friends first, last, and all the 

 time, friends in the strongest and deepest and most sacred 

 meaning of the word. If troubles arose, if clouds loomed 

 above the horizon, in times of storm and times of stress, we 

 sought each other for advice and counsel and laid bare our 

 hearts and minds. We did not always agree in our views 

 and we entertained honest differences of opinion. Often we 

 were drawn into, or perhaps I should say indulged in, earn- 



