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he reads this. I have seen some already. I saw 

 it on the face of Mr. Charles Hallock, the former 

 Editor of Forest and Stream, when I first pro- 

 pounded this theory to him many years ago. He 

 was a guest that year on "The Godbout ' and I 

 had prepared and put up in alcohol for him a 

 piece of salmon skin showing the new scales grow- 

 ing. I had also explained to him my views of 

 how this change was produced. He smiled and 

 promised to write an article ia Forest and Stream, 

 but he must have forgotten it, because it never 

 appeared. Since then I have broached the sub- 

 ject a couple of times to others, but their looks 

 and silence were too significant for me to continue 

 the subject. It is none the less a fact, as I have 

 found by continued investigation. 



Alex. Russell in his work on "The Salmon," 

 page 85, has a vague perception of something an- 

 omalous, in the presence of these clean kelts in 

 Scotch rivers in the early spring. He says: 



"It would be dishonest to omit to mention, 

 " merely because we cannot pretend to explain, 

 " another mystery as to the movements of the 

 " salmon, which no experiments have done any- 

 " thing to clear up. What are those clean sal- 

 " mon that run up the rivers in late winter or 

 " early spring They cannot be wanting to 

 " spawn, for there is no spawning for at least 

 4< six months to come. They cannot have spawn- 

 " ed early in the preceding or rather present 



