dita 
out. This accounts for what seems to be an enormous 
output with very small expenditures. I am _ personally 
familiar with the coast down there and know they have 
opportunities for doing this which are unexcelled, if they 
are equalled, in the world. However, the fact that they 
do this seems to offer a useful suggestion to those who are 
engaged in the propagation of marine species in the United 
States—a suggestion which I hope will prove profitable 
not alone to those engaged in fishculture, but to the fisher- 
men themselves. 
Mr. BoorH—It seems to me, Mr. President, that with 
the consent of the Doctor, these statistics should be ob- 
tained from him and printed and kept for the benefit of 
this Society. To me it has been a very remarkable paper, 
and a very interesting one and very valuable. I would 
suggest, with the Doctor’s consent, that we have it in the 
records. 
THE PRESIDENT—I will say for the information of Mr. 
Booth that all papers read before the Society have hereto- 
fore been printed, and this paper will follow the same 
course, if there is no objection on the part of the Doctor. 
Capr. Cottins—Mr. President, I have a paper here 
which has been handed to me by the Hon. Mr. Ravn, 
Commissioner of Norway to the Columbian Exposition, 
which he has requested me to read. It has been prepared 
for the purpose of showing something regarding the Nor- 
wegian exhibit, or rather making allusion to it, and at the 
same time to give a comprehensive idea, in a few words, 
of the extent and value of the Norwegian fisheries. 
I will say, as a prefatory remark, that Norway occupies 
in the Fisheries Building the largest space of any foreign 
country, and its exhibit is perhaps more complete than 
that of any other country with a collection there. 
I shall have much pleasure to-morrow afternoon, if I can 
have an opportunity, of calling the attention of the Society 
specifically to certain things inthe Norwegian section that 
