40 FISH- CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
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California, Quebec, Oregon, Nova Scotia, Utah, Wyoming, and 
Newfoundland. Each one of the applicants will be given as 
large a supply as that with which the New York Fish Commis- 
sion started, and from which we have succeeded in hatching 
1,340,000 young fry. If one half of the two hundred and forty- 
eight applicants should succeed in raising and propagating this 
species, so that each one should succeed in hatching 1,000,000 
during the next six years, we would have 124,000,000 more of 
this excellent game and food fish in existence than would other- 
wise have been the case. I am very anxious to see this fish in 
everv lake and stream in the country suitable for them, and hope 
that the success of this wide distribution may be as great, if not 
greater, than I have mentioned above. I have also taken pains 
to put each applicant in the way of procuring practica] informa- 
tion in the way to hatch and rear the fish successfully. 
The PresipEntT.—Mr. Green has been called “the father of 
fishes,” but I notice here among us a gentleman who is a friend 
of him who may be called the “grandfather of fishes.” I refer 
to the venerable Doctor Garlick, the father of American fish- 
culture, and would ask Mr. Pease, of Cleveland, who is a friend 
of the Doctor’s, how he is in health and spirits. 
Mr. Pease.—Dr. Garlick’s health, as most of you know, has 
not been good for many years. He is now in his seventy-sixth 
year and is a great sufferer, but his spirit is unbroken. He takes 
great interest in fish-culture yet, and reads all your reports and 
the Forest and Stream with great interest. I do not know that I 
can say more on this subject than to say that the Doctor is with 
you in spirit, although not able to be here in person. 
Mr. PuiLiips.— We expected a paper from Mr.S. M. Johnson, 
of the firm of Johnson & Young, Warren Bridge, Boston, on the 
lobster question. Mr. Johnson has given us much valuable in- 
formation at previous meetings, and is one of the best informed 
men on the lobster question in the country. In place of a paper 
he has written a letter to Mr. Blackford, which [ will take the 
liberty of reading, although evidently not intended to be read 
