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ichthyology of the northwest was fairly covered by Dr. Suckley, U. S. A., in the, 

 "Pacific Railroad Reports." Moses Parley printed his "Fisheries of New Bruns- 

 wick" in 1862. In the same year Holbrook's ambitious work on the "Fishes of 

 South Carolina" appeared a large quarto, with colored portraits of the fishes 

 described. The civil war broke out before the work was finshed, and the sub- 

 sequent death of the author precluded its continuance. In 1866 Lord's "Naturalist 

 in British Columbia" was published. Other books, of more or less interest to the 

 angler, appeared from time to time, but none of special value. Nothing like a 

 comprehensive manual was published until 1864, when Roosevelt's "Game Fish 

 of the North" came out. That was during the year of the first lease of a 

 Canadian salmon river, the Nepissiguit, and the book made special reference to 

 that famous stream in its chapter on salmon fishing, itself a new revelation to 

 the fraternity of fishermen. How to fish for salmon, and the implements to be 

 used, and a description of the sport, had never been presented before. The 

 volume was a godsend to anglers, for it included the technology of angling, fly- 

 fishing, tackle-making, entomology, fish culture, camping out, etc. It described 

 new devices, new methods, and new fields of spDrt, which had come into use 

 during the sixteen years that had intervened since the enterprising Browne had 

 prepared his "Angler's Guide." Moreover, it introduced new species of fishes, 

 not previously regarded for sport, and identified others which had been in doubt. 

 The whole subject was in chaos at that time, scientifically considered. Experts 

 had not even quite determined whether a brook trout and a samlet (parr) were 

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

 has moved since then. 



In 1865. the year following, Roosevelt put out a supplementary book, entitled 

 "Superior Fishing," relating chiefly to the fishes of the Great Lakes, and touching 

 the lately mooted subject of fish protection. The two books together covered 

 the common brook trout, the sea trout, the salmon, landlocked salmon, the 

 coregoni group, the common carp, the mascalonge, pickerel, and great northern 

 pike (now known as the Mississippi mascalonge, in distinction from the masca- 

 longe of the St. Lawrence system), the two then scarcely recognized varieties of 

 black bass, the rock bass, yellow perch, pike perch or wall-eye, the great lake trout 

 (namaycush), lake trout, and siscowet, all of them fresh-water fish; and the blue 

 fish, striped bass, Spanish mackerel, and snapping mackerel (which has since been 

 identified as a young bluefish). all salt-water fish twenty-one varieties all told. 

 The same year "Uncle" Thad Norris produced his "American Angler's Book," a 

 magnificent illustrated octavo of 700 pages (distinctively American, and no 

 mistaking its type), of the same general character and scope as Mr. Roosevelt's 

 dual publication, and including descriptions of some fifty varieties of fishes, of 

 which sixteen were salt-water forms ; but with the disadvantage of being not 

 always accurate. The author was somewhat "mixed" in his ichthyology, and 

 liable to describe without having seen. His carelessness in these respects drew 

 upon himself the gentle reprehension of certain professional Canadians, which 

 he had the good sense to receive graciously, and print in an appendix to later 

 editions. For the most part, however, the book can be relied on, and is service- 

 able. In 1869, Genio C. Scott, an expert in trout and striped bass fishing, printed 

 a copiously illustrated octavo volume, entitled "Fishing in American Waters," 

 which is open to the same objections as Norris's Book, only more so. He 

 devoted large space to salt-water fish, with many of which he was well ac- 

 quainted, and would have made a first-class book had he not prospected beyond 



