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igan, and availed himself of all the devices then known for catch- 
ing fish for market. In 1864 he purchased a portion of Cale- 
donia Creek, and began his remarkable system of artificial prop- 
agation. This event in his life, 30 important to all lovers of 
fish, both for sport and table, has an interest which is intensified 
by Mr. Green’s own modest account :— 
“T first conceived the idea of fish-hatching in 1837 while fish- 
I at last hit upon a plan which has proved a great success, and is 
now, and will continue to be, the means of replenishing our shad 
rivers equal to the best they have ever been known.” i 
A Fishery Commission was appointed in New York State 1» 
tendent of the Commission, which owns a hatchery at Caledonia 
and another at Cold Spring Harbor. The sole ambition of his i 
as he himself expressed it, was to make good fish abundant. This 
in a certain measure he succeeded in doing, and he was every ae 
regarded as a benefactor to the poor, the rich, and especially to the 
sportsman, 
—Close to the U.S.Fish Commission station at Wood’s Holl, Mass 
is the new building of the Marine Biological Laboratory, which w 
