FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 45 1 



Coarse on Pisl) Caltare. 



This novel course — the first as far as we know of the kind in any institution of 

 the United States — has for its object to give some acquaintance with the purposes, 

 methods and results of fish culture in this country, and has been placed under the 

 direction of one of the most competent experts, namely, the well-known ichthy- 

 ologist of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Prof. Barton W. 

 Everman, Ph. D. Prof. Everman combines with his wide range of theoretical and 

 scientific knowledge not only experience in its practical application, but the rare 

 gift of imparting his knowledge in an interesting manner, having graduated from the 

 University of Indiana in 1886, and for ten years practiced as teacher and superin- 

 tendent of schools in Indiana, and for five years as professor of biology in the 

 Indiana Normal School. Entering the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries in 

 1888 as assistant and being promoted to the position of ichthyologist in 1892, in 

 which year he also acted as U. S. Fur Seal Commissioner, he has been in charge of 

 investigations into the food habits and distribution of fish, the location of hatch- 

 eries, and other scientific and practical work in these lines. His literary work is 

 largely contained in the reports of the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the 

 principal subjects being: Studies of the Salmon of the Pacific Coast of America; 

 The Fishes of the Rio Grande Basin ; The Fishes of the Missouri Basin ; The 

 Fishes of Florida ; several reports to Congress regarding investigations for the 

 selection of fish hatchery sites in Montana, Wyoming, Tennessee, South Dakota, 

 Nebraska and Iowa. He is also author in cooperation with Dr. David Starr Jordan 

 of the work in four volumes entitled "The Fishes of North and Middle America." 



The course will consist in a series of daily lectures for two weeks with laboratory 

 work, field excursions to the ponds, lakes and rivers, and visits to the State Hatchery 

 at Clear Water, within a few hours of Axton. One or more lectures will be devoted 

 to the following subjects : 



1. Natural reproduction among fishes; manner of fertilization; conditions under 

 which spawning takes place; dangers which beset the eggs, the fry and the young; 

 necessity for artificial propagation ; natural and artificial methods contrasted. 



2. The species of fishes propagated artificially in America ; the spawning time, 

 place and habits of each, especially those native to the State of New York. 



3. The Salmonidae, or salmon trout and whitefish ; methods of artificial propaga- 

 tion in detail. 



4. The Black Bass and other centrarchidae ; methods of culture. 



5. The Shad, Wall-eyed Pike, etc. 



