ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 17 
efforts of fish-culturists, and therefore the greater number that 
escape the nets of fishermen and gain a longer lease of life and 
greater weight. 
I think we can anticipate an increased catch of shad this 
spring, which will result in reducing the retail price to a figure 
which will enable the poorest man to place one daily on his 
table. For this we labor, our only reward being the conscious- 
ness that mankind is benefited. 
England wants this delicious fish, truly termed by the famous 
Prof. Huxley “the king of the herring family.” 
It is known to many that Prof. Huxley succeeded the late 
Frank Buckland as Inspector of Fisheries. It was my good for- 
tune to meet him a year ago at South Kensington, London. He 
was engaged in investigating the herring, and I found him at work 
sketching one of the family. When making myself known as 
the Vice-President of the American Fish-Cultural Association, 
he gave mea cordial welcome, and we discussed with natural 
enthusiasm the accomplished results and possibilities of the 
future of this science. 
He acknowledged that we were far in advance of the mother 
country, and ascribed it not only to our greater enterprise, but 
also to the freedom from the vested rights of a nobility, in rivers, 
streams, and lakes. The riparian owners were suspicious of the 
slightest interference with their valued privileges. Heacknowl- 
edged the indebtedness of the fish-culturists of Europe to the 
many ingenious inventions and valued experiences of our prac- 
tical investigators—séveral of whom he referred to by name. 
The paper upon the herring which he was preparing, was to 
be read at the National Fishery Exposition at Norwich, Eng- 
land. He regretted he had no specimen of the American shad 
to exhibit—a fish he had neverseen. I at once promised to send 
him some, and suggested that our association would doubtless 
be glad to present to him for distribution in British waters a 
quantity of shad eggs. He expressed great gratification, and 
assured me that it would be of deep interest to the visitors at 
Norwich to examine the shad, and that he would confer with the 
River Conservators with respect to the introduction of the new 
