144 Thirtij-!<('vrufh Annual Meeting 



lip and placed upon a cheese cloth tray allowing the tray to float 

 on the surface as before. Every egg that sunk to the bottom 

 died, while the hatch of the eggs on the tray was the same as the 

 eggs from the second fish, namely, sixty per cent. 



From this and from other circumstances when the eggs are 

 naturally deposited I believe that gold fish eggs must be hatched 

 either immediately below the surface or not more than three 

 inches. The adhesive character of the gold fish eggs is very pro- 

 nounced. Any eggs placed upon a tray glued themselves fast to 

 the cheese cloth and they could not be moved by any oscillation 

 of the tray and in three cases out of four attempts to pick the 

 eggs resulted in breaking the shell. Not one of the six gold fish, 

 male and female, handled died and none seemed to be affected 

 in the slightest degree by the handling. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. J. W. Titcomb, Washington, D. C. : I think that is very 

 interesting and a novelty. I hope Mr. Berkhouse will continue 

 the experiments, and trust that he will meet with better results. 



