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committee of one to go to Washington and lay the mat- 

 ter before Congress. He did this, after consulting 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird, then Assistant Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. To avoid all struggle for 

 the office, Prof. Baird had a clause inserted that the 

 Commissioner should serve without salary, and he was 

 appointed to be Fish Commissioner in 1871. 



Prof. Baird called me to assist in the shad hatching 

 on the Hudson and the Connecticut rivers, and in 1874 

 sent me to Germany with 100,000 young shad. I was 

 again sent to Germany with eggs of quinnat salmon in 

 1877, and also in 1879. I had devised a refrigerating 

 box for salmon eggs which was a success ; but, like my 

 conical apparatus for hatching shad eggs in bulk, it 

 was not patented. 



In 1880 Prof. Baird appointed me to the charge of 

 the American exhibit of angling and fishcultural ap- 

 paratus at the International Fisheries Exposition held 

 in Berlin, Prof. G. Brown Goode representing the 

 Commissioner. 



When Mr. Eugene G. Blackford was made one of 

 the Fish Commissioners of the State of New York he 

 wanted a hatchery on Long Island. Seth Green, the 

 Superintendent of the Commission, opposed it and said 

 there was no fit place on the Island. Mr. Blackford 

 engaged me to examine the waters and to report. I 

 reported that at Cold Spring Harbor was a fine place 

 for both fresh and salt water fishculture, and I secured 

 the place for the Commission from its owner, Mr. John 

 D. Jones, without cost to the State. This was in 1882, 

 and that winter I began hatching salmon for the Hud- 

 son, for the United States Fish Commission at Roslyn, 

 Long Island, and Green sent a man to put troughs in 

 an old building at Cold Spring Harbor, but soon re- 



