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weed disappeared. The nests that Mr. Clark spoke of in the 
beginning of his paper I lay no claim to whatever. In my article 
read at Put-in-Bay, you will find that I say something about the 
nests being used by Mr. Stranahan, and I give him credit for 
getting up that nest at that time. Although the idea was orig- 
inal with me, I found afterwards that he had used the nest long 
before I conceived the idea. So that I lay no claim to its in- 
vention. 
I have some specimens of fish here to which I would like to 
call Mr. Clark’s attention and ask him to compare them in age 
and size with his specimens, to classify them, and to state how 
many he would ship per can. They are mostly large mouth 
bass. 
Mr. Clark: I do not think that the question of the numbers 
in the can has been brought up here. 
Mr. Lydell: No, it has not, and this committee that we had 
appointed a few years ago has not decided yet what we shall 
call these fish. 
Mr. Clark: The committee themselves do not seem to be 
decided. 
Mr. Lydell: I am still shipping mine as fry, as baby-finger- 
lings and fingerlings, advanced fry, and yearlings, and two- 
year-olds, and several other sizes. 
Mr. Atkins: I am still taking the pains to say just how 
many days old our fry are from the egg. I put that down in 
my report. I have not learned yet what the name fingerling 
means, so I never dared to use it. 
Mr. Lydell: I find you cannot go according to ages for the 
the reason that we have, for instance, fish two months old vary- 
ing in length from half an inch to two inches. 
Mr. Seymour Bower: In regard to the standard of size, I 
could not agree with Mr. Clark’s suggestion, calling them No. 
I, up to thirty days, etc., but I like the idea of classifying them 
by number. But I would rate them according to length, 1 inch, 
Nov 1; 2inch, No: 2; 3 inch, No. 3, etc. 
