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specimens while rapidly passing over the first half-mile of our route back to the 

 river. ^fi^^fi^^^^:^'-^ 



In examining the results of my two days' collecting, I find, in forty speci- 

 mens of Anophthalmus Tellka7tipfii, but little variation. Of twelve A. Menetriessii, 

 three show considerable variation in size and form, and one is plainly pubescent. 

 An undoubtedly new species of this genus has been detected among the specimens 

 of the latter species, which I have named A. interstitialis. A small mite (Acarus?) 

 infests the bodies of the Anophthalmi. While studying the larva of the Adelops, 

 and observing the action of the muscular lobes that close the rectum at the end of 

 the anal tube, by pressure I succeeded in expelling the foeces in ovoidal masses, 

 and along with them several thread like bodies, curved in the bhapeof a fish-hook 

 and pointed at the ends. Under a magnifying power of 250 diameters, they ap- 

 pear to be filled with granules, and are thicker and shorter than Trichina spiralis. 

 I suspect that they are intestinal worms. — American Entomologist. 



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The proposition now before Congress to appropriate $20,000 to enable Prof. 

 Baird and others interested in the artificial propagation of fish to make an exhibit 

 of American food fishes at the International Fishery Exhibition, to be held at Berlin , 

 in April, will at least have the good effect of turning public attention, in this 

 country, to the vast and growing importance of the subject of pisciculture. We 

 do not know that we would gain anything directly by sending our samples to 

 Germany, but as the superiority of our methods would excite remark and stimu- 

 late inquiry at home as well as abroad, we might in the end reap a reward in the 

 growth of public interest in this question and the increased willingness of our legis- 

 lative bodies to make the necessary appropriations for the artificial propagation 

 of food fishes. Wonderful progress has been made in re-stocking waters partially 

 or wholly depleted of fish in many of the Northern States. Artificial propaga- 

 tion has been practiced successfully for many years in the production of salmon and 

 codfish in the New England States, and every spring, millions of the young of 

 these species are turned out of the hatcheries into the bays that indent the eastern 

 coast of Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Nor have the 

 streams of that region been neglected. Rivers and creeks that for generations had 

 been without fish, have been re-stocked, and thus new and, with proper care, in- 

 exhaustible supplies of excellent food have been added to the resources of these 

 States. 



The States bordering on the great lakes have for years pursued a most liberal 

 policy in the matter of fish culture. Thirty years ago, Lake Michigan was crowd- 

 ed with the far-famed whitefish, but the eager demands of commerce and the 

 untiring industry of the fisherman made such vast inroads upon the species that it 

 was threatened with utter extinction. About five years ago, at the urgent solicit- 

 ation of a few naturalists who saw the danger and its remedy, the Wisconsin 



