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ter, Virginia; D. H. Fitzhugh, Bay City, Michigan; Dr. 

 G. A. Stockwell, Port Huron, Michigan; George Hayden, 

 Jacksonville, Illinois; A. B. Kockwood, Salt Lake City, 

 Utah. 



Southern and Coast Fishes.— Dr. John P. Ordway, Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; S. C. Clarke, Jamaica Plains, Mass.; Zelraar 

 Goodsell, Bridgeport, Conn.; Kichard T. Miller, Camden, 

 New Jersey; W. H. Seabury, Norfolk, Ya. ; Dr. H. C. 

 Yarrow, Washington, D. C. ; Theo.F. Davidson, Ashville, 

 North Carolina; Geo. C. Eyrich, Jackson, Mississippi; C. 

 J. Kenworthy, Jacksonville, Florida; John E. Leet, New 

 Orleans, La. ; H. B. Metcalf, Montgomery, Alabama; 

 Joseph Labadie, Galveston, Texas. 



Mammals.— Archibald Munn, St. Johns, Newfoundland; 

 Capt. J. W. Coventry, Nouvelle, Gaspe, Canada; Kobert 

 Morrow, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Rowland E. Robinson, 

 Ferrisburg, Vermont; Verplanck Colvin, Albany, N. Y. ; 

 Isaac Hinckley, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Warner Lewis, Law- 

 renceville, Virginia; Prof. F. V. Hayden, Washington, D. 

 C; Rawlings Young, Corinth, Miss.; Geo. A. Alden, New 

 Smyrna, Florida; J. M.Buckley, Monroe, Michigan; L. 

 M. Wyatt, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Ad. Paul, St. Louis, 

 Missouri; S. B. Buckley, Austin, Texas; Dr. J. H. Jane- 

 way, Kansas; Wm. B. Blackwell, Washington Territory; 

 J. M. Murphy, Portland Oregon. 



Small Game Animals.— Prof. Robert Bell, Montreal; 

 Manasseh Smith, Portland, Maine; W. H. Cowing, Boston, 

 Mass.; Jacob Glahn, West Meriden, Conn.; Col. George 

 A Flower, Waterto wn, N. Y. ; Henry S. Hollings worth, 

 Scotch Plains, N. J. ; Chas. E. Coffin, Muirkirk, Maryland ; 

 Chas. M. McLaren, Weldon, North Carolina; Capt. Aug. 

 K. Egbert, Atlanta, Ga.; G. V. Young, Columbus, Miss.; 

 Frank Card, Flint, Michigan; Dr. C. A. Kitchen, Rock- 

 ford Illinois; H. C. Magoon, Monroe, Platte Co., Ne- 

 braska; Maj. G. K. Sanderson, Fort Sill, Indian Territory; 

 D. O. Joice, San Francisco, California; J. W. Sprague, 

 Kalama, W. T. - AT 



Gallinaceous Birds.— Thos. J- Eagan, Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia; T. Herbert Marsh, Toronto, Canada; E. M. Still- 

 well, Bangor, Maine; J. D wight Francis., Pittsfield, Mass.; 

 Ethan Allen, Pomfret, Conn. ; C. W. Hutchinson, Utica, 

 N Y • Geo. Bird Grinnell, New York city; Edward S. 

 Clarke Philadelphia; G. S. Brown, Baltimore; Jacob 

 Wagner, Wvtheville, Va.; Dr. Geo. H. Moran, Marion, 

 North Carolina; Col. James Gordon, Pontotoc, Miss. ; Geo. 

 E Alden, Savannah, Georgia; George A. Alden, New Smyr- 

 na Florida; Henry Mather, Marquette, Michigan; G. H. 

 Seward Piano, Illinois; Richard Valentine, Janesville, 

 Wisconsin- 0. A. Crandall, Sedalia, Missouri; J. F. Cros- 

 by, Houston, Texas; Col G. W. Schofleld, Fort Concha, 

 Texas; D. J. Staples, San Francisco, California; J. C. 

 Ainsworth, Portland, Oregon. 



Bucks and Wild Fowl— John Ludgate, Peterboro, Cana- 

 da-Rev M, Harvey, St. Johns, Newfoundland; John H. 

 Thompson, New Bedford, Mass.; F. W. Lawrence, Lex- 

 ington, Mass. ; H. B. Harrison, New Haven, Conn.; Fitz 

 James Fitch, New York city; J. H Batty Bath Long 

 Island; Ed. Wheaton, Baltimore, Md. ; Wright Rives, 

 Washington, D. 0, ; W. H. Seabury, Norfolk Va.t Hon. 

 I E West, Newbern, North Carolina; C. J. Kenworthy, 

 Jacksonville, Florida; John E. Leet New Orleans, La. ; 

 Henry J. Allen. Schoolcraft, Mich.; P. R. Hoy, Racine, 

 Wisconsin; D. L. Dickinson, St. Louis, Missouri; F. A. 

 Ober, Florida; B. B. Redding, Saciamento California 



Woodeock and Migratory Birds.-C A. Post Peterboro, 

 Canada; Manasseh Smith, Portland, Maine; E. M. Messen- 

 ger, Boston, Mass.; Albert A. Mowry, Putnam Conn.; Dr. 

 L. J. Peck Lockport, New York; Dr. J. R Romeyn, 

 Keesevilie, New York; Robert B. White, Shrewsbury, 

 New Jersey; T. W. Walker, Vi*eland; New Jersey; J D. 

 Sergeant Philadelphia, Pa. ; W. R Clarkson, Bndgeville 

 Delaware- H. W. Henshawe, Washington, D. C. ; Asa 

 Wall Winchester, Va. ; P. L Walters, ^^r Park Mary- 

 land; C. S. Russell, Weldon, North Carolina; H. O Collins, 

 Hillsboro, Ohio; W. B. Rosenbaum, New .Albany , Ind.; Dr. 

 J. A. Henshall, Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. D. C. Estes Lake 

 City Minnesota; S. B. Buckley, Austin, Texas; Dr. John H. 

 Janewav, Fort Wallace, Kansas; R. L. Ogdeii San Fran- 

 cisco California; Charles E. Aiken, Colorado Springs, 



C ^sla)ion.-lion. W. W. Fowler, Durham Conn ; H. 

 B Harrison, New Haven, Conn. G. W. Clinton, Buflalo, 

 New York; Fitz James Fitch, New York city; B. W. 

 Richards, Philadelphia, Pa. ; John Lambert, do; Jacob 

 Wagner Wytheville, Va.; H. 0. Collins Hillsboro Ohio; 

 WHHo bird, Valparaiso, Indiana; C. G. Cole, St, Louis, 

 Mi'ssouri; Chambers C. Davis, Denver, Colorado; Rawlings 

 Younff Corinth, Miss.; H. C. Magoon, Monroe, Nebraska. 

 The g commktees, except that on Nomenclature, were em- 

 powered to add to their numbers at their discretion. 

 P On motion of Dr. Elliott Coues the Association express- 

 ed theS sense of the energy and activity ot their Secretary 

 to whom the Association owes muck of its present et- 



fiC The C Oianks of the Association were tendered to the Col- 

 lege of Physicians for the use of their hall, alter which an 

 adjournment took place. 



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[Reported for Forest and Stream by Pinckney.] 

 Pennsylvania State Game Association. -This associ- 

 ation for the protection of game and fish met in the Senate 

 Chamber, at Harrisburg, last Thursday, Col John H. Ber- 

 rvhill acting as chairman. Twenty-eight delegates were 

 present from thirteen counties. The committee on perma- 

 nent organization reported the following officers:- 



President A. B. Hughes, Philadelphia; Vice Presidents, 

 Robert Dalzell, Alleghany; D. W. Seller, Harrisburg; J. 

 I G ! kinsloe/Lock Haven; Dr. Qeo S. M. Bailey Union- 

 town, Payette county; Recording Secretary, B. F. Doi- 

 rance Wilkesbarre; Corresponding Secretary, Amos G. 

 Bonsall, Miffiintown, Juniata county; Treasurer,^ James D. 



ZZZ Sa^d'ldolpl B-OMsi^adelphia; Com- 

 mittee on Fish Culture, Major J. Rohrer Lancaster, E. B. 

 Westfall, Sunbury; and H. C. Gates, Wilkesbarre. 



The report of the committee on constitution and peima- 

 nent organization was unanimously approved. 



A motion was made that when the convention adjourns, 

 it adjourn to meet at Harrisburg on the third Tuesday m 

 January 1876. Agreed to. 



It was moved that the .first annual meeting of the asso- 



ciation be held on the first Tuesday in October, 1876, and 

 that the first Tuesday in October in each and every year 

 thereafter shall be the day for the annual meeting of the 

 association. 



Various resolutions relating to game and game fish were 

 referred to the proper committees. 



On motion (seconded) it was resolved that the association 

 send two delegates— with power to appoint substitutes— to 

 the national convention at Chicago at its next meeting, 

 and that the President make the appointments of said del- 

 egates and report their names at the next meeting. 



A motion was made, seconded (and carried) that the re- 

 cording secretary be instructed to have 500 copies of the 

 constitution and by-laws of the association printed to dis- 

 tribute among the various associations, and that copies be 

 sent to each club of the association. 



The thanks of the association were tendered to the Pres- 

 ident, Col. John H. Berryhill, and to Messrs. Jas. D. 

 Dougherty, D. C. Phillips, and J. B. Speise, Esq., officers 



of the association, for valuable services rendered. 

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Trapping Ruffed Grouse. — According to the Pough- 

 keepsie Press, these birds are being trapped or snared un- 

 blushingly in that vicinity, over 2,500 having been shipped 

 by the Erie Railroad to this market alone. It calls upon 

 President Wittsie of the Hudson River Association for the 

 Protection of Game, to notice the fact, and, if possible, 

 inflict the penalty upon the offenders. In the present con- 

 dition of the law this is almost a hopeless task. Make the 

 possession of snared birds an offense, and call for the shot 

 holes as evidence, and there may be some prospect of pre- 

 venting extermination. Even then the poachers aud pot- 

 hunters might play one of Ah-Sin's tricks. Once upon a 

 time, when foreign residents in the Flowery land declined 

 to buy game that had been netted, the cunning Celestial 

 would shoot his iron shot into the dead carcasses, and 

 thereby make the outside barbarian believe that his game 



had been fairly killed. 



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Game Laws of Connecticut. 



November 12ih, 1875. 

 Editor Eokkst and Stream:— 



An invitation extended by a kind and valued friend to try ray ten 

 choke bore Jtigby at the ducks in the river and buy at Stratford, induced 

 me to spend a day in that beautiful village. Accompanied by my butler, 

 we reached the hospitable mansion of J. C. B. on Tuesday evening, the 

 9th hist., and after partaking of all the luxuries and enjoyments of a re- 

 fined and happy home, the conversation was directed to our prospective 

 sport the following day. My ardor was damped by a threatening rain 

 storm and by the announcement of my friend that, owing to defective 

 laws for the protection of game, the poachers and pot hunters of the 

 neighborhood had banished every duck from the river, inlets, and bays, 

 and that we need not expect to see a bird. Having always entertained a 

 favorable opinion of New England saints and Connecticut Yankees, and 

 believing that they were not disposed to "kill the goose that laid the gol- 

 den eggs," I learned, upon inquiry, that. the law breakers were not more 

 culpable than the law makers. 



The ninth section of the laws of Connnecticut of 1872, entitled "Pro- 

 tection of Water.'owl," provides: "Every person who shall kill, keep 

 when killed, or expose for sale, any wild duck, goose, or brant, in May, 

 June, July, August, or who shall kill or take any such fowl with any 

 other pun than such an one as is commonly raised at arms length and 

 fired from the shoulder, or who shall shoot at any such bird or other wild 

 fowl from any vessel propelkd by steam or sails, or from any boat or 

 structure attached thereto, shall be fined seven dollars." 



This section is wholly imperfect and ineffectual, and the legislators by 

 whom it was framed and made a law must have been "unacquainted with 

 the nature and habits of the birds it intended to protect. It opens the 

 door and gives to the stealthy, prowling poacher unrestrained libeuy by 

 night to destroy all kinds of waterfowl on their feeding grounds, thus 

 driving the game to sea or to more humanized localities. One shot at 

 ducks on their feeding haunts after nightfall is more destructive to sport 

 than a dozen battues by day. Between nine o'clock ou Tuesday night 

 and two o'clock on Wednesday morning volley after voliey was heard on 

 the marshes, and for one bird that is retrieved twenty escape wounded to 

 decay and die, and thus the truth of my friend's remark, that we would 

 not see a feather. If suitable and humane game laws were in force in 

 Connecticut, there is no locality iu that State superior to Stratford, where 

 every honorable sportsman could enjoy the pleasure of duck shooting; 

 but until the legitimate sportsmen unite in forcing from their legislators 

 a wholesome code of laws, the reckless and thoughtless will have their 

 sway, and duck shooting by day will be a thins of the past. 



Stratford is but four miles from Bridgeport, where a body of gentlemen 

 have formed a society for the protection of game. What have those 

 gentlemen done? What have the gentlemen of Stratford done? Are 

 they aware ttiat the law of 1872, instead of protecting wildfowl, gives a 

 cat te blanche to the poaches to drive every bird from their waters? The 

 poacher is naturally a thoughtless, improvident, drunken outcast, and 

 nothing short of a rigorous, stringent law, rigidly enforced, will restrain 

 the miscreant from evil. Almost every State in the Union, with the ex- 

 ception of the sanctified State of Connecticut, prohibits the shooting of 

 wildfowl by night. A few lines tacked on, by way of amendment to the 

 ninth section of the act of 1872, would cure the evil. I have always felt 

 a deep interest in the protection of game of all kinds, and I suggest to 

 my Connecticut friends, and to the Sportsman's Club of Bridgeport in 

 particular, that they prepare such code of laws as may be easily under- 

 stood, making them as brief as possible, and submit the same to their 

 next Legislature; but the truth is, that all local State laws for the pro- 

 tection of game will never reach the desired end, and until the several 

 Legislatures shall adopt a new and simple code of game laws, uniform in 

 its application to all the States, as their genera and climatic condition 

 will permit, game of all kinds, whether fur, fin, or feather, cannot be 

 properly protected. This plan of uniform, or co-operative game laws, 

 has been most ably discussed in Forest and Stream. It has worked 

 to a charm in Great Britain, and in this country the advantages would be 

 more conspicuous, not only in preventing the enactment of special laws, 

 that invite transgression by their incongruity, but by putting an end to 

 the shipment of game illegally killed in one State, and its open sale in 

 another where the law does not forbid such sale. 



It is not intended by these remarks to discourage our Connecticut 

 friends from amending their present defective statute. Such amend- 

 ment will prove an auxiliary to general and comprehensive uniform game 

 laws. Let me suggest the following amendment- -"No person shall kill 

 any wild duck, goose, or brant before sunrise, or after sunset, under a 

 penalty of $25 for each one bird kited before or after said time. In case 

 of failure by any person to pay the penalty imposed upon him pursuant 

 to this act, he shall be committed to the common jail of the county for 

 a period of not less than five days, and at the rate of one day for every 

 dollar of the judgment where the same exceeds five dollars. All penal- 

 ties imposed b^this act may be recovered, with costs of suit, by any per- 

 son, in his own name, before a justice of the peace in the county where 

 the offence was committed, or where the defendant resides, where the 

 asaouBt recovered does &oi exceed the jurisdiction of such justice, ftnei 



such penalties may be recovered in the like manner in any court of rec- 

 ord in the State; but on recovery by the plaintiff in such case for a less 

 sum than fifty dollars, the plaintiff shall only be entitled to costs to an 

 amount equal to the amount of such recovery; and it shall be the duty of 

 any district attorney in this State, and he is hereby required to corn- 

 ine' ce actions for the recovery of the penalties allowed hereby, upon re- 

 ceiving proper information, and in all actions bi ought by such district 

 attorney one half of the penalty recovered shall belong to the person 

 Hiving information on which the action is brought, and the other half 

 shall be paid to the treasurer of the county for the support of the poor. 

 All judgments hereafter recovered by or in the name of any person, in 

 pursuance of the provisions of this act, with the interest thereon, may 

 be collected and the payment thereof enforced by execution: and any 

 person imprisoned upon any such execution shall be so imprisoned for a 

 period of not less than five days, and at the rate of one day for every 

 dollar or fractional part thereof of such judgment and interest when the 

 same exceeds five dollars. And such imprisonment shall not be satisfac- 

 tion of such judgment. But no person shall be but once imprisoned 

 upon any such judgment or execution. And any execution issued upon 

 any such judgment against the body shall either recite the fact or have 

 an endorsement thereon to the effect that such judgment was recovered 

 for a violation of said act." 



Amendments such as suggested, and a few convictions for infringe- 

 ment of the statute, will give to the honorable sportsman a successful 

 day at the ducks on the waters of Stratford. ]f I failed in the immedi- 

 ate object of my nisit, I did not fail in having a most enjoyable day in 

 the society of a true hearted sportsman, who, unlike the great majority 

 of hard-worked editors, merchants and lawyers, lives in the shadow of 

 retirement, enjoying that otium cum dignitaie the offspring of an hon- 

 ored business life, surrounded by loved ones, who adorn and enliven his 

 happy home. B. 



Protection Needed in Louisiana, 



New Orleans, October 29th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream :— 



Being a constant reader of your excellent paper, I will take occasion 

 here to say That I am an ardent sportsman, and would hail with delight 

 any movement among our Nimrods here to bring about the enactment 

 and enforcement of game laws such as you have in your section. The 

 difficulty most to be dreaded is the fact that a large proportion of our 

 fishing and hunting population— in short, those who make their living 

 that way— are hidden in the swamps and bayous of the surrounding 

 country, where they shoot and fish in season and out of season, and 

 where it would be almost impossible to enforce the law. This is an ob- 

 stacle, however, which might give way, as many greater obstacles have 

 done, before the combined effort of enlightened and. experienced minds; 

 and it is to this end that I write you. Can you not, by reason of your 

 popular and commanding position, induce our amateur sportsmen to 

 take a livelier interest in this subject? There are numerous "knights of 

 the trigger" here, who have the leisure and capacity to correspond with 

 you intelligently on this subject, and who would, upon the proper hint, 

 no doubt be glad to give you their views. Adelbbrt Murchison. 



[Any information which our esteemed correspondent 

 may choose to communieate regarding the subjects which 

 we all have at heart, will be thankfully received, and we 

 shall consider ourselves fortunate if others in his section 

 will favor us in like manner. — Ed. J 



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ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CENTEN- 

 NIAL. 



The Act of Congress which provided for '-celebrating the one hun- 

 dredth auniversary of American Independence, by holding an Interna- 

 tional Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and 

 Mine," authorized the creation of the United States Centennial Commis- 

 sion, and entrusted to it the management of the Exhibition. This body 

 is composed of two Commissioners from each State and Territory, nom- 

 inated by the respective Governors, and commissioned by the President 

 of the United States. The enterprise, therefore, is distinctly a national 

 one, and not, as has sometimes been stated, the work of a private corpo- 

 ration. 



The Exhibition will be opened on May 10th. 1876, and remain open 

 every day, except Sunday, until November 10th. There will be a fixed 

 price of fifty cents for admission to all the buildings and grounds. 



Tne Centennial grounds are situated on the western bank of the 

 Schuylkill River, and within Fairmount Park, the largest public park in 

 p; ox.mity to a great city in the world, and one of the most beautiful in 

 the country. The park contains 3,160 acres, 450 of which have been en- 

 closed for the Exhibition. Besides this track, there will be lar^e yards 

 near by for the exhibition of stock, and a farm of 42 acres has already 

 been suitably planted for the tests of ploughs, mowers, reapers, and 

 other agricultural machinery. 



The Exhibition buildings are approached by eight lines of street cars, 

 which connect with all the other lines of the city, and by the Pennsylva- 

 nia and Beading Railroads, over the tracks of which trains will also run 

 from the North Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- 

 more Railroads. Thus the Exhibition is in immediate connection with 

 the entire railroad system of the country, and any one within nin ety 

 miles of Philadelphia can visit it at no greater cost than that of car- 

 riage hire at the Paris or Vienna Exhibition. 



The articles to be exhibited have been classified in seven departments, 

 which, for the most part, will be located in appropriate buildings, whose 

 several areas are as follows : 



DEPARTMENT. BUTLDING. ACRES COVERED. 



1. Mining & Metallurgy ) 



2. Manufactures >• Main Building 21.47 



3. Education & Science ) 



4. Art Art Gallery 1.5 



5. Machinery.. Machinery Building li. 



6. Agriculture Agricultural Building 10. 



7. Horticulture Horticultural Building 1.5 



Total 48.47 



This provides nearly ten more acres for exhibiting space than there 

 were at Vienna, the largest International Exhibition yet held. Yet the 

 applications of exhibitors have been so numerous as to exhaust the 

 space r and many important classes of objects must be provided for in 

 special buildings. 



An important special exhibition will be made by the United States 

 Government, and is being prepared under the supervision of a Board of 

 Officers representing the several Executive Departments of the Govern- 

 ment. A fine building of 4J acres is provided for the purpose, space in 

 which will be occupied by the War, Treasury, Navy, Interior, Post Of- 

 fice, and Agricultural Departments, and the Smithsonian Institution. 



The Women's Centennial Executive Committee have raised $30,000 for 

 the erection of a pavilion in which to exhibit every kind of women's 

 work. To this collection women of all nations are expected to contrib- 

 ute. 



The list of special buildings is constantly increasing, and present indi- 

 cations are that their total number will be from 200 to 250. Most of the 

 important foreign nations— England, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, 

 Egypt, Japan and others— are putting up one or more structures each, 

 for exhibiting purposes, or for the use of the commissioners, exhibitors 

 and visitors. Offices and headquarters of this kind, usually of consid- 

 erable architectural beauty, are provided by the -States of Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, 

 Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, West Vir- 

 ginia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and Delaware; and it is likely that oth- 

 ers will follow the example. 



A. number of trade and industrial associations, which require large 

 amounts of space, will be provided for Jn special buildings. Among 

 these are the photographers, the carriage builders, the glass makers, the 

 cracker bakers, the boot and shoe man uf slayers, heaifl* piffle a Miip.ba? 



