The Days of a Man 1903 



appreciate more highly the sentiment which influenced you to 

 present the books to me, through me to be presented to the 

 Library of the Leland Stanford Junior University. It shall be 

 arranged according to your wishes, and the authorities governing 

 the Library will be instructed that this special Library is to be 

 called the " David Starr Jordan Library, a Gift to the Leland 

 Stanford Jr. University." 



I accept the books and your testimonial of interest in me, as 

 a token of regard and respect from one whom I have felt honored 

 to be associated with. 



Yours gratefully, 



JANE L. STANFORD 



Fishery In the summer of 1903 I was deputed by Com- 

 *Aiaska rmss i ner Bowers to make a survey of the salmon 

 rivers and salmon canneries in Alaska, and to gather 

 all possible data concerning fishes in general at 

 the same time to prepare, in conjunction with Ever- 

 mann, suitable regulations to govern Alaskan fish- 

 eries. The steamer Albatross, now under Captain 

 Franklin Swift, was accordingly placed at our dis- 

 posal, and early in June we started out from Seattle. 

 Besides Evermann and the Albatross staff, I was 

 assisted by Professor Harold Heath and several 

 others, among them (all of us serving without pay) 

 my son Harold, who had charge of the whaleboats 

 from which shore collections were made. 



The dredging apparatus provided was used in the 

 various channels all the way from Puget Sound to 

 Cook's Inlet, bringing thus to light a large number of 

 new species afterward described by Evermann and 

 Goldsborough. The direct practical result of the 

 summer's work was a series of statutes which, with 

 minor changes and additions, remain in force to this 

 day, though Gilbert's recent intensive investigations 

 (1917-1920) showed certain defects, now mostly 



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