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printed an article written by Major W. G. Turle, in 
which he described a completely successful experiment 
in transplanting and establishing the May-fly in waters 
where it was previously unknown. I gathered my flies 
in a bait bucket and a tin biscuit ee: oe Major Turle 
improved upon that by using band-boxes with lines of 
worsted from side to side for perches. The flies were 
caught by picking them from the bushes and placing them 
in the boxes, and the boxes were taken by railroad train 
to the waters which it was desired to stock, and there the 
flies were released on the bank. Major Turle was of the 
opinion that it required two years for the eggs to mature, 
but, as will be seen from Mr. Andrew’s letter, it requires 
but a year. The illustration of the larvee or creeper of the 
May-fly used in this paper was prepared for Mr. Frederic 
M. Halford’s work, ‘Floating Flies and How to Dress 
Them,” but was rejected for another process, and was 
very kindly loaned by Mr. R. B. Marston, editor of the 
Fishing Gazette, London, and a corresponding member 
of this society. 
The illustration is 5in. long, and a particularly fine cut, 
but the natural creeper is less than rin. in length. The 
larvee as well as the fly can be transplanted, and besides 
furnishing food for the fish the diet may teach and en- 
courage the trout to rise to a fly. 
The Chairman invited remarks and discussion on the 
two papers now before the society: 
Dr. JAMes—The subject of ‘Food for Fishes” is 
much too important to be passed without discussion. I 
was very much interested in the paper, because it leads 
to the all-important subject of giving us good fish. If 
our fish are lean and have not a good flavor, we cer- 
tainly lose all enjoyment for that kind of food; and the 
more we can improve the variety as well as the fatness 
or quality of the fish, the better it is in the market. Of 
