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the same, or that brook trout were not in fact immature salmon. The scientific 

 world has moved since them. 



In 1865, the year following his first production, Mr. .Roosevelt put out a 

 supplementary book, entitled "Superior Fishing," relating chiefly to the fishes of 

 the Great Lakes. These two books, as well as my ''Fishing Tourist" and Prime's 

 "I Go a-Fishing" (1873) were all published by the Harper Brothers. 



Not only must Mr. Hoosevelt be recognized as a well-informed author of 

 undoubted accuracy and reliability, but he was foremost with Agassiz, Baird, 

 Theodatus Garlick, Ainsworth, Samuels, Prime, Mather, Sage, Seth Green, Slack, 

 Krider, Norris, Royal Phelps, and other ichthyologists in the promotion of fish 

 culture and preservation of fish. He was for many years, and up to the time 

 of his death, president of the Xew York City Association for the Preservation of 

 Game and Fi?h, ard wrote many articles on angling and kindred subjects in tho 



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Visited by Mr. Charles Ilallock in 1859. 

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Citizen, which he published in 185C-57. Verily, he is entitled to a leading place in 

 history, and let the fraternity of anglers freely accord it. Honor to whom 

 honor is due. 



As to Norris : Forty-six years have passed since the first edition of Uncle 

 Thad. Norris' remarkable book appeared, and of all the cognate emanations which 

 have subsequently been written, few have been able to add or subtract anything 

 to materially affect the integrity of the work or make themselves of better worth. 

 I am making no reference, of course, to the transcendent works of the purely 

 -cicntific field, in which the scale system, the lateral line, and the hyoid bone play 

 so important a part. The "American Angler's Book" is today by long odds the 

 best home book extant upon the broad subjects of which it treats, and this con- 

 ceded precedence is made obvious by the fact that it is still in print, and that 



