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greatly mistaken, and should try it in order to fully appreciate its true meaning. The 

 result to the writer was a long period of serious illness with malaria, and the prevention 

 from doing much valuable work. 



It is a singular fact that, owing to the unusual number of very heavy late rains, 

 the spring of 1898 was the. worst that has been known here for fifteen years for just 

 this kind of an experiment. Our weir was entirely submerged no less than six times, 

 and completely washed out three times, so the attendants had to leave it, and could 

 reach the cabin only in a boat. Of course, each freshet of this kind caused a break of 

 several days in the records, as is shown in the following tables. Another source of 

 serious annoyance was the efforts which the misguided persons who lived above the 



NO. 14 TRACKS OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS ALONG THE SHORE WHERE LARVAL LAMPREYS LIVE. 



weir made to thwart our plans, because they had been told that we intended to kill all 

 of the fish that ran up stream, and they were accustomed to fishing in the Inlet with 

 seines at times when the game warden was not likely to appear. The antagonism of 

 these persons, for whose interests we were so earnestly working, reached such a stage 

 that at one time they threw several barrels of feathers into the stream, above the weir, 

 for the express purpose of stopping it up. At another time we were treated to 

 a wagon load of old onions, and at other times to piles of brushwood, leaves, 

 dehris, etc. 



Although the following table shows twenty-one species of true fishes caught, none 

 but suckers were ever killed. We do not even think it necessary to openly deny the 



