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B. Tom-Cod. — With these eggs we have good results. We 

 took 280,000, and turned loose 213,000 fish. The eggs are not 

 adhesive like the smelt's, nor buoyant like the cod's. These 

 hatched in about twenty-five days.' 



This record shows that between two and three million eggs 

 were placed in the troughs at this station, and besides this there 

 were over 3,000 more handled and repacked for foreign ship- 

 ment, or received from foreign countries for hatcheries in 

 America, all the foreign receipts and shipments passing through 

 my hands for inspection or repacking, in which great successes 

 have been scored. We propose to begin the artificial culture of 

 oysters this summer. 



Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk Co., N. V. 



THE RIVER EXCURSION. 



On Thursday, Mav 7th, the society made a trip to the shad 

 hatching grounds of the Potomac on the U. S. Commission 

 steamer Fls/i Hawk, by invitation of Prof. S. F. Baird. Col- 

 Marshall McDonald acted as master of ceremonies, and was 

 ably assisted in doing the honors by Lieut. Pietmeyer. Prof. 

 Goode and Mr. Cox. 



Arriving at Fort Washington, an attendant showed four mil- 

 lion eggs in process of packing for shipment to the central sta- 

 tion at Washington. At 3 p. m. the company sat down to a lunch 

 of planked shad, corn bread and coffee, and then made ready to 

 return. On the homeward trip a meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee was held in the cabin, Hon. Theodore Lyman presiding. 

 Mr. Lyman suggested that the present was a proper time to 

 transact any unfinished business, and to make any necessary ar- 

 rangements for the next meeting. 



Prof. Goode moved that a vote of thanks be tendered to Prof. 

 Spencer F„ Baird, Commissioner of Fisheries for the United 

 States, for his courtesy in placing the Fish Hawk at the dis- 

 posal of the society for this trip. Carried. 



Mr. Clark moved that the next annual meeting of the society 



