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after reaching a certain size. They reach two pounds pro- 
bably in two years, and then they grow more slowly. 
THe PReEsIDENT: You have the credit of introducing the 
carp into this country. 
Mr. BrevoorT: I: had “mothime to do myseli* with 26 
Mr. Bell had introduced the carp at Troy, and was quite suc- 
cessful with them; but his dam gave way once, and all his 
carp went into the North River I have received carp lately 
from the North River, and found it was the small carp, 
not the;large carp. The carp/as probably not. much: better 
than some of our suckers, but with good cooking it is a 
very good river-fish. Old stories in Europe say that you 
can send a carp a six days joutmey and it will live. “Pier 
is a story of a carp which was sent to Paris, and nobody 
wanted it, and it was sent back to Strasbourg and put in 
the pond alive. 
Exception was taken by a member to Mr. Brevoort’s 
statement as to the introduction of carp, it having appeared 
that carp were introduced into this country by Captain 
Robinson. 
Proressor Batrp, United States Commissioner of Fish and 
Fisheries: In regard to the food of the menhaden IT have 
had many of them—thousands of them—and examined the 
contents of their stomach, and I always found the stomach 
loaded with black organic mud. It-is said by fishermen 
that mackerel plunge after the small jelly-fish, and eat out 
the centre of them. I have had a collection of mackerel 
stomachs since last fall, and in one specimen we found 
thirteen young fish of different species. .We know that 4c 
mackerel do eat young fish, the shrimp, &c.; but after an ex- 
