Contents 



short — Orthogenesis — Law of Vertebrae — 



— Northern fishes develop more segments — 



— Quaint diversions — Gains and losses 



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1. "Ei, ei, das Bier sehr mundet mir" — A dry 

 town — The carven tables — A courageous com- 

 mittee — Rigid ruling — Meyer now strong for 

 milk shake — Self-government initiated — Debt 

 to Clark 



2. International Fisheries Commission — Bound- 

 ary waters — Rathbun's work — Truly inter- 

 national — First setback — Prince succeeds 

 Bastedo — Knox succeeds Root — The Maine 

 law — Grand Menan — The Thousand Islands 



— To Gainesville — A rich feeding ground — 

 The creeping pound nets — A fine discovery — 

 Lake Huron — Sault Ste. Marie — Lake Supe- 

 rior — Rainy River and Lake of the Woods — 

 Unprotected sturgeon — Kenora — Winnipeg — 

 The gold eye — A boundless wheat field — Asul- 

 kan Glacier — Selous — Salmon unequally dis- 

 tributed — In Puget Sound — Nass River and 

 the steelhead — Prince Rupert — Father Hogan 



— Clan MacDonald and "Black Jack" — Speedy 

 reform — First Legaie 



3. Prince and Gisborne — Bryce and Muir — Fatal 

 delay — Appeals by constituents — Spring-Rice 



— Not a lobbyist — Michigan fishery laws — 

 Treaties national only — Unequal enforcement 

 of law — Study of Saginaw Bay — "My Lady of 

 the Snows" — The sane Canadian boundary — 

 "Mild Reservations" — Puget Sound — Canada's 

 refusal to confirm — Present state of boundary 

 fisheries — A valid objection — Staple species 



— Important localities — Salmonoid fishes of the 

 Great Lakes — A most useful volume — Adee — 

 Provincialism — What is a "Western" man? — 

 A new type of hearer — Parental anxiety 



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