14 FISH- CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
partially successful, and it is expected that they can be made 
wholly so. The transportation of the eggs of the cod from this 
city to the Washington hatching-houses is a problem which still 
awaits solution. An attempt was made last fall by the use of 
hermetically sealed jars. The eggs were taken at the Fulton 
Market slip and impregnated, and their development retarded 
by placing them in water at a temperature of 34 degrees. In at- 
tempting to hatch them artificial sea water was used, and the 
failure of the attempt, it is thought, was due to that fact. 
Mr. BLackrorpD.—The possibilities of cod hatching at Fulton 
Market are simply immense. I wrote to Prof. Baird, the United 
States Fish Commissioner, this winter, and offered, on behalf of 
the Fulton Market Fish Mongers’ Association, the use of the ripe 
cod brought alive in the wells of the fishing-smacks, and offered 
to give all assistance possible. Prof. Baird sent two experts 
and Prof. Ryder. who wisned to study their embryology. The 
first lot of eggs sent on trays and in kettles from the market to 
Washington was a failure. The second shipment went in glass 
fruit-jars, half full of eggs, and filled with salt water, and ar- 
rived safely, which proves that they can be sent that distance. 
Whatever failure occurred afterward was due to bad water. 
I have suggested to Prof. Baird that next fall the steamer Fish 
Hawk, with all its appliances for hatching, be sent here, and of- 
fered, if this was done, to furnish 100,000,000 per diem for hatch- 
ing purposes. This could easily be done, as a large cod will 
strip 9,000,000 good eggs. This method will save the expense 
of sending out a special steamer to catch fish with ripe eggs, 
and will save a great waste of both fish and eggs. 
The following gentlemen were elected members of the asso- 
ciation : Charles W. Smiley, Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 
ton, D.C.; Lieut. Henry B. Mansfield, United States Navy ; 
Prof. Alfred Mayer, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 
N. J.; Col. M. McDonald, Fish Commissioner of Virginia ; 
We 1.«Gilbert,.Plymouth,..Mass,; saP Schuyler, Proygn Ya; 
Erastus Corning, Albany, N, Y.; John T. Agnew, Charles Banks, 
and Benjamin Wood, New York city. <A recess was taken until 
two P.M. 
