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all over with milt, and let it stand five to eight minutes, and 
then added a little water to it, and in about ten to fifteen 
minutes more added a little more water, and at the end of 
half an hour washed them off and put them in the hatch- 
ing apparatus, and in sixteen days I counted hundreds and 
hundreds of spawn, and had 95 per cent. impregnated. I did 
not tell everybody about it for three years. My discovery 
was in October, 1864. 
Mr. Milner claimed the credit for Mr. Atkins as having 
been the first to publish the method referred to. 
Mr. MATHER, in. response to’ the President's. call, said: 
Ubawishvto° saya word) in ‘commection’ with the reading jos 
Mr. Livingstone Stone’s paper. Mr. Stone says “that in the 
fall of 1877 eggs ‘were sent to~Hunope, and did mot tugs 
out well, . The: probability .isy that »the person’ having ye 
| eggs in charge did not keep them cool.” I was the man 
who had the eggs in charge. What Mr. Stone says is true, 
but if the. egos..could; have: been *kept, at ‘the’. temperature 
which he names (30 deg.), he says they would have gone 
over admirably. The facts are these: I was requested by 
Prof. Baird, the United States Commissioner, to go over and 
take care of these eggs. I arranged my own plan, which was 
to take them over on flannel trays, with an ice-chambe on 
top.....1.:had: some), little. expericnee fin..going : to:.sea) with 
fish, and knew some of the difficulties.. I was aware that on 
board ship you have to conform to the regulations, and do 
as you are told, right or wrong, and your things are moved 
in case of a storm or anything without consulting you. I 
did all in my power to keep the eggs at the proper tem- 
perature. It was proposed to put me near the engine, the 
only place, they; could, find... Whe) North, German: loge 
were very liberal in giving facilities of transportation free 
