130 FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
The practical application of these facts is of the utmost value. 
The same nutritive substances in the different samples of fish 
were found to vary from 40 cents to $3 per pound. It makes 
little difference to the man with $5,000 a year whether he pays 
40 cents or $4 a pound for the albuminoids of his food, provided 
it suits his palate, but to the housewife whose family must be 
supported on $500 a year it.is a matter of great importance. 
As regards the value of fish as brain food, continued investi- 
gations confirm the statements of a year ago, that fish are no 
richer in phosphorous than other animal foods and are worth no 
more in nourishing the brain. 
NEED OF POPULAR INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE MATTERS. 
In Germany, whither we have to look for the best of our defi- 
nite knowledge of these matters, information like that given 
above is widely and generally diffused among the people. Ta- 
bles like those above are published in pocket diaries [a sample 
of one of these diaries was shown to the audience] and used for 
constant reference by hundreds of thousands of people, in all 
ranks and conditions of life. 
We want statements of this sort concerning our own foods, 
and in such form that the people can make use of them. 
As has been said, the investigations in this department of 
science have hitherto been confined to Europe. It is time that 
they be taken up on this side of the Atlantic. We are recog- 
nized as the first fish culturists of the world. Why should we 
not have a thorough investigation into the economic values as 
well as the methods of propagation of our fish? 
Mr. Phillips then offered the following: 
Resolved, That the American Fish Cultural Association heartily 
appreciates the importance of the investigations upon the nutri- 
tive value of fish, now being carried on by Professor Atwater, 
the results of which have been in part communicated by him at its 
meetings in 1880 and 1881, and that in the opinion of the mem: 
bers of the Association, the importance of these researches to 
the fish industries of the United States can scarcely be over esti- 
