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caught by the fishermen during the shad-fishing season in 
nets. One was caught in a shad-net below Philadelphia. 
Prior to that time a fisherman had caught a salmon weigh- 
ing eleven pounds. As he saw it before it escaped, he said 
he thought that salmon was so much larger than the one 
that weighed eleven pounds that he thought it would have 
weighed at least twenty-five pounds. As we introduced no 
fish into the Bushkill until 1873, I am of the opinion that 
these fish were five-year-old salmon, and the product of the 
eggs hatched in 1872, and I have no doubt that the product 
of 1873, returning next year, will give us many more sal- 
mon in the Delaware River next year than this year, and 
I hope to have, among others, the pleasure of forwarding 
to Professor Baird the first California salmon. This is but 
a-very small return, it is true, for the number of eggs -in- 
troduced into the Delaware, but to my mind it is a solu- 
tion of the problem. I know that one swallow does not 
make a summer, but where we see one swallow we can in- 
fer that more are coming. We know this, that the salmon 
that are introduced and have been introduced into the Dela- 
ware and its tributaries have been there as young fish, and 
returned there from the sea; that they came back full of 
ripe spawn ready to deposit and reproduce; and if that is 
not a solution of the question that salmon can be introduced 
as far south as the Delaware, I do not think that any theory 
can be discovered from a statement of facts. 
Mr. Hatiocx: The object of my getting up was to say 
that in view of the suggestions of Mr. Scott, and of the 
concurrence of all of us with his ideas of the desirability 
of introducing the estuary-fish, and estimating the growth 
of all fish, I wish to say that there has been started with- 
