80 Tzucnty-sevcnth Annual Meeting 



We have had some difificuhy in Wisconsin. We have been tell- 

 ing people that we have been planting -whitefish and that they 

 have been increasing in numbers; some of these people will say, 

 I don't believe you, you haven't got anything to prove it. You 

 cannot convince the average fisherman against his own will. 

 Several years ago Mr. Nevin took inland fish and put them in 

 Lake Superior; they produced an entirely different kind of fish, 

 so that the fishermen then had to admit it. There was the proof 

 and the fishermen of Lake Superior now admit that fish culture 

 is a success. I think this paper is in that direction, it is to get 

 proof so that it will satisfy everybody and will give them the proof 

 that fish culture is a success. I think he has tried to demon- 

 strate in another way that it can be shown by proof that the 

 artificial propagation of fish is a success. It is simply in the 

 same line as these experiments with the Wisconsin fish. 



Mr. Whitaker: If there is no further discussion on this 

 paper I beg the indulgence of the society for a few moments. 

 We have with us a citizen of Gmaha who is seeking information 

 about fish. He is making some experiments which he desires to 

 have a little advice upon. He. proposes to do some work in fish 

 culture in connection with artesian water. He is the Surveyor 

 of Customs of this port. I have the pleasure of introducing to 

 the society Dr. Geo. L. Miller, of Omaha. 



Dr. Miller: Gentlemen: This is an agreeable surprise to me. 

 1 saw the notice of your coming among us and I took an imme- 

 diate, personal and selfish interest in it as well as a public one. 

 It is indeed a very great courtesy that my friend suggests that I 

 should say a word in a convention of this importance, devoted 

 to prepared papers and on fish culture. 



I take advantage of the opportunity to say that I am, from 

 my nativity and the associations of my boyhood, a lover of fish. 

 Where this younger man (referring to Secretary Whitaker) first 

 saw the sunlight and with the streams with which he was familiar, 

 I have been familiar in a long and active life, the Northern Adi- 

 rondacks. We were both natives of New York, you of Lewis and 

 I of Oneida. I have resided here since this was a white settle- 

 ment, for more than forty years. I came in here to hear sug- 

 gestions from you on a subject in which I am interested. ]\Ir. 

 Ravenel, of the United States Fish Commission, has been very 

 polite in making suggestions to me about a lake which I have 

 of forty acres. I began without any scientific knowledge to put 

 in breeders, and through the courtesy of Mr. May I put in some 



