THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
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Perhaps, in that day, the honorable guild of fish-mongers will 
erecta monument of their gratitude, and will inscribe on its 
tablets the names of scientific men, who have in our time labored 
to create a new industry. 
SPEECH OF Hon. S. S. Cox. 
LapIEs AND GENTLEMEN: It is my pleasure and privilege this 
evening to move a vote of thanks to the Hon. Theodore Lyman, 
for his very felicitous and learned address upon this annual oc- 
casion. Iam told that by a custom which now obtains in this 
museum, I am expected to speak to my own motion. If I were 
in another body I think I should rule it out of order, but I have 
a special gratification this evening in having a Congressman 
appear here so thoroughly learned in marine zoology. There is 
sitting before me, I notice, an ex-member of Congress, the Hon. 
Mr. Roosevelt (and I beg to say that in this particular province 
an X is not an unknown quantity), who has also devoted his ser- 
vices, his intellect, and sometimes his sportive nature to the 
same object as my distinguished friend from Massachusetts. But 
a New York man has not the same right to talk fish as a New 
England man. It is the privilege peculiar of the latter, as any 
one can see who will examine the last census, and you may have 
noticed all through the remarkable address of our friend that he 
is associated with the fish interest and with the dams of Massa- 
chusetts. I cannot say that I was shocked or astonished at his 
description, and at hearing the names of the various little 
streams of that State. We have always heard of them in the 
River and Harbor Bill. [Laughter.] But I was struck by one 
thing, namely, that he took very good care in his discussion to 
connect science with religion. And even at the falls of the Paw- 
tucket, where he said the. manufacturing interests did not har- 
monize with those of the fisheries, he associated the old Puritan 
doctrine with religion, revelation, science and fish-culture, which 
were almost one and the same thing. And it is simply, true<) dé 
you look at the escutcheon of the State of Massachusetts you 
will find it to be a codfish, and nearly all the quarrels of that 
