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  rROCEEDINOS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  ver 
  ore, 
  etc., 
  from 
  the 
  late 
  Lieut. 
  Erasmus 
  Dennisou, 
  throui:;h 
  and 
  

   in 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  messmates 
  of 
  the 
  deceased, 
  by 
  Lieut. 
  L. 
  E. 
  Ohen- 
  

   ery, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  

  

  Doiirttions 
  to 
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  the 
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   Louis, 
  by 
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  all 
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  the 
  above 
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  to 
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  purchase 
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  No. 
  

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  lu 
  connootion 
  with 
  tlie 
  spooimeo 
  of 
  Shad 
  presented 
  this 
  evening, 
  

   Mr. 
  'rhroekmorton 
  said 
  tliat 
  on 
  the 
  '21th 
  of 
  June, 
  1871, 
  this 
  shad 
  

   was 
  three-quarters 
  of 
  an 
  inch 
  in 
  len^i^th, 
  and 
  Avas 
  put 
  into 
  the 
  Sac- 
  

   ramento 
  River 
  at 
  Tehama, 
  after 
  making 
  a 
  trip 
  across 
  the 
  continent. 
  

   One 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  efforts 
  of 
  the 
  Commissioners 
  was 
  to 
  i^ot 
  shad 
  from 
  

   tlie 
  eastern 
  coast, 
  because 
  it 
  was 
  emphatically 
  a 
  food 
  fish 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  

   desire 
  was 
  to 
  ascertain 
  whether 
  it 
  could 
  be 
  propagated 
  on 
  this 
  coast 
  

   with 
  success. 
  The 
  Commissioners 
  opened 
  correspondence 
  with 
  Mr. 
  

   Seth 
  Green 
  on 
  tlie 
  subject 
  of 
  bringing 
  over 
  the 
  ova 
  of 
  the 
  fish, 
  lie 
  

   discouraged 
  the 
  Commissioners 
  at 
  once, 
  from 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  shad 
  

   is 
  hatched 
  in 
  from 
  thirty-si.\ 
  to 
  forty-five 
  hours. 
  

  

  The 
  Commission 
  then 
  tried 
  to 
  obtain 
  a 
  supply 
  of 
  water 
  for 
  trans- 
  

   it 
  of 
  breeders, 
  and 
  the 
  railroad 
  comi^anies 
  were 
  kind 
  enough 
  to 
  give 
  

  

  