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fish and on improved means of curing them. He studied 

 the foods of fishes with a view to determining the most 

 tempting baits for fishermen's use and to gathering in- 

 formation as to the unknown factors that enter into the 

 migrations of sea fishes. In 1873 he and the famous fish 

 culturist, Livingston Stone, started from the Hudson 

 River with a lot of shad fry which they planted in the 

 Sacramento River at Tehama, two hundred and seventy 

 miles from the sea. So successful was this experiment 

 this this splendid food fish has now spread from Mexico 

 to Japan, and has become so abundant that in 1892 they 

 sold in the markets of San Francisco at from two to 

 three cents a pound. The catch has markedly declined 

 since that time, but this has not been due to any factor 

 involving Dr. Bean. As a fish culturist there was hardly 

 his equal in America, and the striking success that has 

 attended the efforts of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in 

 the artificial hatching of fish eggs is largely due to his 

 directing skill in the early days of the old Commission. 



Foreign countries have recognized his merit most lib- 

 erally. The late Mikado of Japan gave him the Order 

 of the Rising Sun ; France made him a Chevalier of the 

 Legion of Honor and an officer of the Merite Agricole, 

 while the German Kaiser made him a Knight of the Im- 

 perial Royal Order of the Red Eagle, besides bestowing 

 on him a magnificent bronze plaque, designed by Pro- 

 fessor Breuner of Berlin and cast by H. Goldenbeck & 

 Son, the noted bronze founders of Berlin. Indeed there 

 is scarcely a government on earth that has not honored 

 him in some way. 



It is to those who had the pleasure and honor of his 

 personal friendship that the memory of Dr. Bean will 

 be most dear. At no time was his deep learning inac- 

 cessible to one who sought it, and the present writer feels 

 a gratitude that cannot be repaid for the way in which 

 Dr. Bean placed his time, his labor and his information 

 at the service of an ignorant beginner in the study of 

 ichthyology. Brilliant as were his public achievements, 

 it is to those with whom he was thrown in private life 



