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ARGENTINA. 
As the Society has already been advised, this work was in- 
augurated by the Argentine government in the fall of 1903, when 
Mr. John W. Titcomb was employed to make investigations. Mr. 
Titcomb was in the country seven months during which time he 
traversed portions of it lying between latitude 25 degress and 45 
degrees south. He constructed the first hatchery in South 
America and before leaving Argentina, eggs of various species of 
Salmonidae had arrived and had been successfully hatched. 
The government has organized a division of fish culutre in the 
Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculuture, 
for the support of which $35,090 paper morey ($15,418.50 gold) 
is annually appropriated for salaries. The chief of the division 
of fish culture is Mr. E. A. Tulian, a member of this Society 
and formerly superintendent of the United States Bureau of 
Fisheries Station at Leadville, Colorado. The government pro- 
vides for a second chief and the necessary number of superimten- 
dents of stations. At the present time, besides Mr. Tulan three 
fish culturists from the United States have entered the employ 
of the Argentine government. The following lst shows the as- 
signments of eggs furnished the Argentine government from the 
United States and the results secured from them. 
Per Cent. 
Year Species No. Shipped Hatched 
1904—Brook trout.......... 103,000 82 
WAKE ME OM bcuseae ie a eres 50,000 95 
LRHIsM OYOKWi | [COWLES Heo aaa $100,000 
Steelhead trout....... *20,000 ve Pa 
Landlocked salmon... 50,000 90 
VAIS as Sac 5 are epeecinre 1,000,000 90 
1905—Brook trout.......... 300,000 94 
WAkKGSEE OUUSE se cee oe 224,000 95 
Rainbow trout....... 100,000 48 
Landlocked salmon... 30,000 83 
Chinook salmon...... 7100,000 Re 
1906—Brook trout.......... 60,000 79 
IanO iGROUG ans cos oleee. ota 80,000 94 
Rainbow trout........ 24,000 10 
Landlocked salmon... 20,000 93 
Chincok salmon...... 300,000 97 
Sockeye salmon...... 122,500 95 
SilversSalnmion.... ....- 89,180 97 
It will be noticed from the table that the eggs of the rainbow 
§Planted eggs in Laguna la Grande en route to Nahuel Huapi. 
*Hatched en route and planted from the vessel off the Brazilian coast. 
yjEgegs a total loss. 
