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that I take the fresh-water individuals, including, of course, those 

 truly landlocked as commonly designated, to be the better repre- 

 sentatives ot the species S. solar. As you are well aware, no dis- 

 tinctions are made between young born of parents that have returned 

 from the sea and those of others which have never been there. Prop- 

 agation takes place, so far as now known, only in tlie fresh waters, 

 and the fact that some individuals leave them for a time, becoming 

 somewhat modified by so doing, neither gives rise to a different 

 species nor even a different variety. The change is simply varia- 

 tion of an individual, which variation is not at all a necessity for 

 the continued existence of the species, 



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 "Believe me, gratefully yours, 



"Samuel Gaeman." 



Those writers who, having httle regard for the 

 anatomy of the fish, have claimed for the ouananiche 

 the honor of a distinct variety from the ordinary 

 Salmo solar, base the claim upon its apparent want 

 of anadromy and its smaller size. So " Piscator," in 

 The Complete Angler, the same who amuses us by 

 the statement that pike are bred of pickerel-weed, is 

 made to say of a supposed large trout : " Whether this 

 were a salmon when he came into the fresh water, 

 and his not returning into the sea hath altered him 

 to another color or kind I am not able to say." And 

 many modern Waltons find no difiioulty in deciding 

 that different habits alone constitute a different va- 

 riety. Garman is exceedingly clear upon the point 

 that no new variety is given rise to by the fact that 

 some individuals leave for a time the fresh water 

 in which they are propagated, " becoming somewhat 

 modified by so doing." The "modified" individuals 

 herein referred to being the familiar Atlantic salmon, 

 and the further statement flowing from Professor 



