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TO MY HON'ORED 

 AND ESTEEMED FRIEND OF MANY YEARS 



TARLETOX H. BEAX 



Fish Culturist of the State of New York 

 President of the American Fisheries Society 

 Founder and First Director of the New York Aquarium 

 Chief of the Department of Fish and Game at Many Universal 

 Expositions 

 Author of Innumerable and Important Piscicultural Books and Gov- 

 ernment Documents 

 Decorated in the Legion of Honor and Herite Agricole of France 

 the Red Eagle of Germany, and the Rising Sun of Japan 

 for his Services to Fish Culture and the Fisheries, 

 etc., etc. 



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