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smelt to the finish at the breakfast table. Those who best 
know it most enthusiastically indorse, with a slight amend- 
ment, Prof. Jordan’s apothegm: ‘‘ Nothing higher can be 
said of a salmonoid than that it is a [Sunapee] charr.”’ 
ON THE HANDLING OF ADHESIVE EGGS. 
BY PROF. JACOB REIGHARD. 
The title of the paper which I will read at this time 
is upon the handling of adhesive eggs. <A part of what I 
have to say has already been printed in the Tenth Annual 
Report of the Michigan Fish Commission, with some addi- 
tions. 
Those who have had experience in taking the eggs of 
the wall-eyed pike or pike-perch are familiar with the 
difficulties which arise from their adhesiveness. For the 
first hour or two after they are placed in the water the eggs 
adhere to one another and to the vessel which contains 
them. The adhesiveness is due to the action of the water 
on the outer egg membrane, which behaves in this respect 
like other mucous bodies. 
It has been thought necessary to resort to constant stir- 
ring or shaking in order to keep the eggs apart. Not only 
is much time wasted in this stirring or shaking, but large 
numbers of the eggs are injured. Even after the eggs 
have been placed in the hatching jars, dead ones are at- 
tacked by fungus, which causes them to adhere to one an- 
other and to the living eggs, so that they must frequently 
be taken from the jars and passed through sieves in order 
to separate them. 
These eggs are usually delicate, and the result of this 
rough handling to which they are subjected, owing to me- 
chanical injuries and the resulting attacks of fungus, is 
that about 70% of them are usually killed. It seemed, 
therefore, desirable to find some method of dealing with 
