20 FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
Water Works, where it passes under the conduit. On the south 
side a pool forms in which some boys were bathing. The stream 
contained many eels, the largest being about the size of a No. 4 
needle. 
The buttresses of the conduit-house have two square open- 
ings, or arches, through which the waters of the creek pass very 
rapidly, at no time reaching within twelve inches of the top of 
the opening. It was our wish to possess some of these small 
eels; one of the small boys, anticipating our wish and perhaps 
desirous of a reward, proposed to catch some for us. No sooner 
said than done. The boy at once procured a handful of damp 
moss from the upper portion of the opening, containing about 
ten young eels. We suspected that the boys had a vessel hang- 
ing in the aperture whence they had taken the eels, wherein 
they had placed them previous to our arrival. I proceeded to 
solve the mystery. Procuring a fence-rail that crossed the pool, 
I walked over and thrust my arm into the aperture expecting to 
find the vessel, but without success. I raked the top with my 
fingers, and drawing forth a handful of moss, discovered the eels, 
We both knew, when young eels are barred off by a rapid cur- 
rent or dam, they could climb a perpendicular wall when wet 
and covered with vegetation, but were unwilling to believe they 
would cling like a fly to the ceiling. 
“ Well,” said my companion, ‘we can tell our story, and let 
others believe or disbelieve us as they please.” 
I can say that after this experience we are more skeptical 
concerning waters that are inaccessible to eels. I have seen 
them on land at night, in the wet grass, and in shaded places, 
taking advantage of inclines and crevices, and now squirming 
their way through a stream by clinging to vegetable matter on 
the sides of stones, but nothing like this has ever before come 
under my observation. 
The next paper read was by Mr. Livincston Stone, U.S. 
Assistant Fish Commissioner, on the Transportation of Fish: 
One very peculiar and exceptional characteristic attends the 
transportation of living fishes, namely, that they must be pro- 
