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Mr. Worth: Were the eggs all one color, or were there any 
markings on them ? 
Mr. Stone: They seemed to be all alike, but they are very 
much marked you know. They have very curious markings. 
Mr. Worth: I never had the pleasure of seeing but one lot, 
and there were so few left in the fish that I don’t know whether 
they were in normal condition or not; but it strikes me that 
they were of a dull grayish color in general and that there was a 
dark central spot—black. That was on the Delaware River. 
Mr. Stone: That is about it. 
Mr. Carter: The eggs we had varied from a dark alive to a 
light brown, and were comparatively small when they came from 
the fish—I mean that they were probably an eighth of an inch 
in diameter, but after being in water for a while they seemed to 
swell. It is was not exactly a swelling process either, but this 
gelatinous-like substance seemed to form about the eggs, and 
the thickness of the substance was about equal to the diameter 
of the egg; so the egg was about three times as large after this 
process took place in the water as it was when it came from the 
fish. I do not know that there is any “gray” about it—this 
gelatinous substance is transparent and very sticky. As stated 
in my paper, they stuck to the side of the bucket and to boards 
so tenaciously that when we held them under the hose, with 
which we siphoned the water out of a pond above, thus obtaining 
a 15 foot fall, we could not force them off the side of the bucket. 
I presume in nature they stick to rocks, logs, ete., in the same 
way. 
President: Having had a little experience in this matter 
years ago, it might perhaps be well to bring it up, although I 
think it is published in some of our earlier reports. One of our 
superintendents now in South America, was foreman at our 
Alpena station from 1883 to 1887; and some experiments with 
sturgeon were made on Detroit River during that time. We 
did not succeed in catching any sturgeon that were full of eggs 
We got some that had partially spawned out, and we got a few 
of the eggs. There was no difficulty whatever, as Mr. Stone 
