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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1879. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, Intended for publication, must be ac- 

 companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good faith 

 and be addressed to the Forest Axd Stream Publishing Company. 

 Names will not be published if objection be made. No anonymous com- 

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Stdbb and AokBtjbst.— We do uot suppose that the worthy 

 and well-known gentlemen venose names are here given will 

 recognize themselves as the "Dr. Stutce"and "Mr. Acklinert" 

 whom our paper mentions as having spoken on the subject of 

 migratory quail before the Brooklyn Gun Club a few days 

 ago. Neither do we suppose the friends who have known 

 them for many years will recognize them by those names. 

 Our printer's devil however seemB satisfied ; and as long as 

 ho is suited, he will doubtless maintain that none of us ought 

 to complain. Nevertheless we tender our apology to Dr. 

 Stube and to the veteran naturalist, Mr. John Aekhurst, of 32 

 Nassau at.. Brooklyn, whom we advise that the best thing 

 he can do is to capture that printer's imp and put him in 

 pickle as a specimen. 



Fobest and Stbeaii Toubnajirkt. — "Work began with the 

 most brilliant promise and with the best of feeling on all 

 Bides, and the keenest desire to -win as well. The score of 478, 

 made by the Zettlers' first team on the first night, has never 

 been equaled, and the New York team made a bold bid with 

 4G8 in the possible 500. In the next issue of the Fobest and 

 Stream the match will be fully reported in all its details. 



The discretion left to the captains to fix the exact terms of 

 carrying out the match was wisely used, and precisely what 

 WBbdone will be shown by the record from the Secretary, 

 published elsewhere. 



Back Again.— That bumble-bee man has come back from 

 the West, and now wants to know if he can find good trout 

 fishing in the Boston "frog pond." Yes, bless his soul! all 

 the bobbing he wants. But he must wait until the 1st of 

 April. Trout and fools are both out of season until that date. 



—Fred Beverly's lecture before the Long Island Historical 

 Society on Tuesday night last was very fully attended. Sub- 

 ject: " Life Among the Caribs," illustrated with stereopticon 

 views. Mr. Ober (Fred Beverly) spent two years among the 

 Windward Islands, and the information which he gathered 

 here, and is ready to impart, is of the most novel and interest- 

 ng character. Natural nistory Societies can find no greater at- 

 traction than such lectures as he can give. By the aid of a 

 Btereopticon he can magnify a small bug to the size of an ele- 

 phant, so that the nearest-sighted persons in the room can see it, 



GROUSE FOR NEW ZEALAND. 



The United States have already supplied New Zealand with 

 salmon ; now we have sent a lot of pinnated grouse. What 

 next ? 



We are glad to see that the shipment of these birds recently 

 made from Kansas has reached San Francisco in fairly good 

 order, and has been started on its long sea voyage. Mr. 

 Creighton's letter, in another column, sufficiently explains it 

 self. It is to be noted, however, that if the pinnated grouse 

 had already penetrated to California, as some of our corres- 

 pondents would have us believe, it is strange that a cage full 

 from Kansas should excite so much interest and curiosity as 

 is indicated by the closing paragraph of Mr. Creighton's letter. 



Fobest and Stbeam has been instrumental in sending 

 several lots of pinnated grouse to England, including a ship- 

 ment to the Prince of Wales; but all died tconer or later, we 

 believe. The fate of the New Zealand shipment will be 

 watched with the greatest interest. Unless something be 

 done before long to protect this Bpecies, it is not altogether 

 beyond the range of possibilities that we may be obliged in 

 the years to come to send to New Zealand for birds with 

 which to stock our own prairies once more. 



THE BERLIN FISHERY EXPOSITION. 



THE Deutsche Fischerei Verein has made rapid advance 

 during the few years of its ex stence and has had a wide 

 influence in promoting the developement of fish culture in 

 Germany. 



The exhibition of the Verein in 1873 was very effective in 

 awakening a public interest in fish culture, advancing the sci- 

 ence of pisciculture, and securing needed protection for the 

 fishing industries. Since that date, what was then an infant 

 society has increased very largely both in membership and in 

 fluence and now possesses facilities and resources for conduct- 

 ing an exhibition on a much grander scale. We have already 

 published at length, in our issue of Jan. 23, the prospectus of 

 the International Exposition of Products and Implements of 

 Sea and Fresh Water Fisheries which the Society will hold at 

 Berlin in April, 1880. A glance at this prospectus will show 

 that the proposed exhibition will be on a scale fully commen- 

 surate with the importance which this department of commer- 

 cial industry and political economy is assuming. Provision is 

 made for the display and comparative study of all kinds of 

 fishing methods, tackles and utensils ; machinery for working 

 up raw materials ; apparatus for pisciculture, including all 

 kinds of appliances and implements for artificial breeding ; 

 models of hatching houses, etc. ; methods of conveying live 

 fish, eggs, fry, etc. There will also be collections of the fish 

 of every quarter of the globe, of birds, animals and insects 

 which are injurious to fish and fish spawn. Scientific inves- 

 tigations will be made regarding herbaric and aquatic fauna 

 and everything pertaining to this important branch of fish 

 culture. It will thus be seen that if the plan is carried out 

 with the fullness of detail set forth in the circular, the visitor 

 to the Berlin Exposition will have rare facilities for the ex- 

 haustive study of every branch of his science. An opportu- 

 nity will also be afforded to different nations of bringing their 

 fishery products to the attention of the world ; and to dwell 

 upon the beneficial results likely to accrue from such a com- 

 mercial exhibit is to insist upon commonplaces. Whether or 

 not tlio United States will be suitably represented or not will, 

 of course, depend upon the action of Congress. It is due that 

 that body should give the subject the attention it deserves 

 and a suitable appropriation be made. 



Mr. George Shepard Page, No. 10 Warren St., this city, 

 who is a Corresponding Member of the Deutscher Fischerei 

 Verein, has been instructed to act as the medium of the Ver- 

 ein in this country and will give attention to any correspond- 

 ence which may be addressed to him upon the subject. 



prosperity among the Corinthians of America ; to them we 

 owe the most influential steps in favor of the liberalization of 

 our matches and the raising of our regattas from mere family 

 affairs to open races in which the flyers of all clubs are equally 

 welcome at the line To their energy and generous efforts 

 we must ascribe the steps taken to abrogate oppressive laws 

 and odious regulations, the recognition by the Custom House 

 of yachts of less than twenty tons, the countenance of ocean 

 matches, the dissemination of knowledge relating to the tech- 

 nical phases of the sport, and, last but not least, they have 

 placed themselves squarely upon the record— thanks to the 

 leading members, of whom the club may well be proud — in 

 favor of the inauguration of a measure aB prorniuent for its 

 liberalism as for its praiseworthy unselfishness and its direct 

 bearing upon the formation of a valuable nucleus of technical 

 acquisitions which will bear potentially and healthily upon the 

 development of the American model of the future. 



The proposition of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club to enforce 

 upon owners of winning yachts a deposit of their vessel's 

 " lines" with the club is a move which receives our hearty 

 commendation, and one that will add immeasurably to the 

 prominence already taken by this club among its many sister 

 organizations, and a step that will redound to the fame of the 

 prime movers of this innovation. As the leading exponent of 

 the sport in America, and in sympathy with all attempts to 

 lift yachting to the highest standard, the club has our best 

 wishes for the bright future which is certainly in store so long 

 as they follow the course the tact of their leaders has plotted 

 on the chart of the future. 



AGAIN TO THE FORE. 



THOUGH comparatively a new organization, the Seawan- 

 haka Yacht Club has from the very day of its inception 

 pursued a policy at once so sound and liberal that its future 

 has always been bright, and a prosperous carreer assured it. 

 Organized a few years ago by yacht owners whose only aim 

 in the formation of the club was the concentration from all 

 sources of the progressive element of the sport aud the foun- 

 dation of a club in which active saUing and a mastery of naval 

 science and seamanship were the objects primarily to be 

 attained, it followed that the growth of the club in numbers 

 and popular favor made rapid strides, and that it soon took 

 rank in standing and esprit de corps with the time-honored 

 association whose records lead back to anti-bellum contests on 

 the deep. With its pretty burgee flying at the mast-heads of 

 some sixty sail, and its roll footing up over one hundred and 

 fifty members — most of them on the active list and masters of 

 their vessels, from hawse-hole forward to tarf rail aft— no won- 

 der that the yachting public and the outside world have learned 

 to look to them for the lead — for the course to sail the ship 

 of club administration safely to the haven of success. While 

 our Eastern friends may fairly claim the honor of having first 

 introduced Corinthian matches among the small fry, the credit 

 of inaugurating the same system upon a larger scale and car- 

 rying it through to the brightest realization of the most san- 

 guine expectations, will ever form a conspicuous leaf in the 

 array of laurel wreaths bestowed by a discriminating public 

 upon the leading spirits of the Seawanhakas. To them we 

 are indebted in no small measure to the present activity and 



Obsitholoot and Iohthtolooy.— Dr. Elliott Couesand 

 Prof. G. Brown Goode, both of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 are two of the hardest students aud most prolific workers in 

 America. Each is now preparing a mighty and comprehen- 

 sive Bibliography of his own Specialty. We have referred 

 to Dr. Coues' work before, and published a card of his in our 

 issue of Jan. 30, inviting some co-operation on the part of our 

 readers. To-day we print a similar card from Prof. Goode ; 

 and as what he says outlines the general plan of both works, 

 those who are interested and wish to assist in either specialty, 

 will be enabled to act intelligently by examining the context. 

 Prof. Goode says in a private letter, from which we quote ; 



"I propose to call my work an 'Index Bibliography of 

 American Ichthyology.' It will make a book of surne 600 or 

 700 pages 8vo. It will grVe a full title of every book (in every 

 edition) and every article in periodicals relating to fishes, 

 fisheries and fish culture, together with a short collation of 

 each one which communicates new facls. I have now some 

 3,000 titles, and expect to run up to about 5,000 or more - 

 The work will also give page references for every description 

 of new species or genera, and references to every published 

 figure or cut of an American fish. It will be arranged in sec- 

 tions. In Section 1 will be given an alphabetical list of 

 authors, with their papers arranged chronologically. In Sec- 

 tion 2 the same papers will be arranged by years as in Coues' 

 Bibliography in his ' Birds of the Colorado Valley,' showing 

 the growth of ichthyologieal knowledge from year to year. 

 Then there will be a systematic catalogue, grouping together 

 the works on descriptive ichthyology, on anatomy, on physi, 

 ology, on geographical distribution, on the fisheries, on 

 angling, on fish culture, on legislation of the fisheries, on em- 

 bryology, etc. FinalJy, will be an index of zoological names, 

 which will refer to every zoological name used for American 

 fishes, and its introduction into literature. I hope to make 

 the book useful to all writers on, and students of, fishes, by 

 enabling them to find at a glance what has been written on 

 any particular topic, or by anyone writer. Take for instance 

 your own writings : it will show at once exactly where Mr. 

 Hallook has written of the sea trout, the kyack, the eapeliu 

 and cod fisheries of Labrador, the fisheries of the Restigouche, 

 legal protection of game fishes, etc. ; it will show the page 

 where Cope first described Thymallus tricolor. It will give 

 reference to the only published figure of that fish ; (he one in 

 Forest and Stkeam." 



With this exposition of Prof. Goode's requirements we 

 take much pleasure in appending the circular which he has 

 addressed to our correspondents; and we have no doubt that 

 most of them will readily comply. We presume Mr. Goode 

 proposes to furnish an alphabetical list of the remaining 

 pseudonyms : 



United States commission, fish and Fisheries,) 

 .•Smithsonian Institution, y 



Washington, D. C, March 3, 1679. J 



Editor Forest and Stream and Rod and Ucn : 



Your paper has contained many articles signed only by initials or 

 pseudonyms. It Is much to be regretted that so many of your contrib- 

 utor prefer to conceal their names, for recorded facts Have little value 

 unless authenticated by some reliable name. Many of these articles 

 ai e important contributions to knowlodge, and I hope that their authors 

 will comply with the request which I am going to matte, ami thus place 

 their observations upon a permanent fooling In geological literature. 

 send you a list of the signatures for the first tour letters of the alphabet! 

 1 wiBh to Invite tbe writers who have used thtse signatures to send me 

 i Heir real name for use in the Bibliography. A postal card addressed 

 tomeattheSmithsoDiun Institution will besufllcleut. 1 shoDld add 

 that 1 have included in this list not only the contributors to Forest and 

 Stream, but those to tbe Rod and (Jim and the American Sportsman. 

 This list will be followed by others, but I shrill be very glad to bnve any 

 writer communicate to me his real uaine, whether tin signature la in- 

 cluded in tbB list or not ; and If a list of his articles could also be sent, 

 it would greatly 1 acil ilaie the woik. G. Brown Goode. 



A., H. C. A., J. A., Forest Aisle, William Altch, Al Fresco, Alleghany. 

 Alosa, Amateur, Angler, Amateur Aogler, Anglo-American, Apachee, 

 Archer, Asa, An Sable, B. (several under this), B. Y, B., F. B., B. O. B., 

 G. B., J. H. B., 1. W. B„ R. F. B., B. 8. B.. W. N. B., Balsam, Ian Beg,, 

 Bellerophon.Blstowy, Boz, B. L. Z. Bub, Bob, flaceph, Boston, A. Brick, 

 But* Bass, Black Bass, Buncombe. A. H. C A. S. C, C. C, C. H. C.,' 

 D. T. C , E. Y. C, G. N. C, Capt. J. M. C, F. C, F. F. C, G. C, J. C, 

 J. A. C, ,1. B. C„ J. £>. C, M. C, E. G. C, S. W. C, T. C, T. C. C, W. 

 H. C , Canoe, Carplo, Cayuga, Clllbili, Chasseur, Consul Cburchlll, 

 Circle, S. C. C, Fitz Cochran, C. E. c, Concha, Z. Concha, Connewicut, 

 Coregonus, Cornelius, Cosmopolitan, Col. Crampton, Crusoe, D., O. TJ. 

 D., D. L. D., J. E. It., G. D., T. S. D., H.W. De L„ Dexter, Dick-, Doctor 

 Drnld, E„ W. C. E., W. W. E., Eric. 



