1@e) FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
This year I repeated these divisions of the German eggs, and 
also received ten thousand eggs of the same species from Mr. 
R. B. Marston, editor of the Fishing Gazette, London. Five 
thousand’ .of .these. were labelled “our best, tnout,” 3joco were 
from the Itchen, and 2,000 from the Wye. Both last year and 
this season the large German trout hatched well, but have died 
freely before taking food, while the small variety has thrived 
and been distributed to waters not named in this article. The 
large English trout have done splendidly and will be kept at 
the station for breeders. This European brook trout has, as 
you may see, a larger scale than ours, and to my eye is a more 
beautiful fish than our own trout. It is a fish that from its 
habit in Europe should live in the Hudson from North Creek, 
or above, down to Troy. In Europe it is found plentiful in the 
south of England, while the charrs, of which our so-called trout 
is one, are only found in the deep cool lakes of the North. | 
believe that we have the necessary conditions of the Atlantic 
coast to successfully acclimatize this fish, and I have always 
been skeptical about habituating the Salmonide of the short 
streams of the Pacific coast, with their snow-fed waters in mid- 
summer, to our longer and warmer rivers, and this skepticism 
has increased since I have suspected the so-called rainbow 
trout to be identical with the steelhead salmon, S. gatrdnert, 
which is a migratory fish. 
WHITEFISH. 
The great surface exposure of the reservoir at this station is 
favorable to the late hatching of the whitefish. The temperature 
of the water in the hatchery for the month beginning Feb- 
ruary 23rd, and ending March 23rd, varied from 34 degrees to 
48 degrees, the mean being 38%. Shipments of whitefish were 
made this year to Great Pond near Riverhead, Long Island, 
on February r5th, and to Lake Ronkonkoma on March rgth. 
This is as late as the fish are hatched in the cold lakes, and the 
"young will find food when planted in March. 
THE SALT WATER WORK. 
Uhe cold weather caused us to suspend out-door work before 
