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the parent fish had been dead several hours when he took the eggs which he 



subsequently hatched. He claimed next to have hatched the eggs of yellow perch 



after drying them for ten days. It was the printed details of these experiments which 



caused the late Spencer F. Baird to write to Dr. Garlick as follows: 



I had never attached so much importance to the statements of Dr. Bachman as Mr. Milner 

 did, and I am quite satisfied that there were serious errors in Dr. Bachman's statements; so 

 great, indeed, that whatever may have been the actual tacts, they could not have been as given 

 by him. In any event, anything Dr. Bachman may have done cannot affect your position as 

 the first person to actually propagate fish in the United States by artificial methods. 



The fall fish is called cousin trout in New England in allusion to its troutlike 

 habits. Many is the time that one of these fish has risen to my flies when fishing a 

 trout stream, missing over and over, until from its rising short repeatedly, which 

 appears to be characteristic of the fish, I have discovered that it was a chub and not a 

 trout. It grows to four or five pounds in weight and affords fair sport with 

 fine tackle. One authority says it is esteemed as food, but Thoreau said "The chub 

 is a soft fish and tastes like brown paper, salted." A lady of my acquaintance, when I 

 visited her husband for fishing in a cold New England lake, always requested that the 

 fall fish be saved for her, and I confess that when taken from that cold, clear water 

 and cooked, the fall fish was not to be compared to brown paper, salted ; for, except 

 that the flesh is rather sweet, it is equal to some other fishes that I know are esteemed 

 as food. 



There is another and smaller chub belonging to the same genus called horned dace 

 or creek chub, which has a conspicuous dark spot at the base and front of the dorsal 

 fin by which it can always be separated from the fall fish. Small fall fish, with their 

 glittering silver scales, make an excellent bait for other fish Under the drawing of 

 the fall fish, I have used the specific name Semotilus bullaris (Jordan and Gilbert), 

 and not 6". corporalis which is a later classification by Jordan and Evermann. For 

 this I think I have sufficient warrant without an extended explanation of why I did 

 it, as the explanation will be made elsewhere and by another pen than mine. 



Ale wife or I^rancI) Herrincr. 



This fish illustrates the fondness of our people for applying several common names 

 to one of our fishes when it is found in different waters, as it is known, in addition to 

 the two names given above, as gaspereau, wall-eyed herring, big-eyed herring, ellwife 

 and sawbelly. It is abundant along the Atlantic Coast, entering the streams to spawn, 

 and also found in the interior lakes of this State, where it is known scientifically as 

 variety lacustris. The name sawbelly is given to it in Lake Ontario and the St. 

 Lawrence, and, I think, also in Cayuga Lake, where it swarms and where great 



