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KEiNDALL: NEW ENGLAND CHARRS. 
“By the way, the silver trout of Dublin Pond or Monadnock Lake, New Hampshire, 
somewhat noted among anglers, seems to be a silver gray variety of common fontinalis, not 
visibly different except in color. The statement in the report of the U. S. Fish Commissioners 
for 1872-73 (p. 372), that it belongs' to the group of lake trout, probably closely related to what 
Dr. Prescott called Salmo symmetrica, is erroneous. The so-called species of lake trout, namay- 
cush, amethystus, pallidus, confinis, adirondacus, symmetricus and toma, are, beyond any 
reasonable doubt, forms or varieties of Salmo namaycush, differing in some trifling respects in 
the different waters.” 
In 1884, a controversy regarding the identity of this fish and a point of fish-protective law 
depending upon its identity, arose among the inhabitants and fish wardens in the vicinity of 
Dublin Pond. A notice regarding the fish and the controversy appeared in the Boston Journal ' 
as a published letter which was copied by Forest and Stream, vol. 22, page 130, March 13, 
1884, and which is here quoted: 
“A pecuhar fish.— Concord, N. H., March 5. An exceedingly interesting question has 
arisen in Dublin, N. H., in relation to the subject of fish protection. It appears that of late 
persons have been catching a certain kind of trout from Dublin Pond and claiming that it is a 
peculiar species and is not protected by the state law. The local wardens refrained from making 
arrests under the circumstances, but caught some of the fish and forwarded them to the State 
Commissioners, who are Col. .George W. Riddle, of Manchester, Hon. Luther Hayes, of Milton, 
and Col. E. B. Hodge, of Plymouth. Those gentlemen sent specimens to Harvard University 
for examination, and an answer has been received from Prof. F. W. Putnam, Curator of the 
Peabody Museum. Prof. Putnam, assisted by Prof. Garmon [sic = Garman] head of the Zoo- 
logical Museum, has made a preliminary inspection of the fish and says the variety is one they 
do not yet make out. At present they are inclined to believe them a variety of the Salmo 
fontinalis, or brook trout, but add that further study may change their views. In the mean- 
time the Commissioners have instructed the Dublin wardens to prohibit the catching of the fish 
under discussion, and to prosecute all persons found taking them. This action is based on the 
belief that they are a variety of brook trout. They are small in size and fine eating, and their 
general appearance is such that if few of them were mixed with accepted brook trout it would 
require an effort to separate them. There is a rumor that Agassiz once stated that he discovered 
a rare variety of trout in Dublin Pond, such as was found nowhere else in the United States, 
excepting in a small lake among the Rocky Mountains. — Boston J ournal. 
“ [We have seen the singular trout from Dublin Pond and think it merely a white form of 
the common brook trout. These silver fish, which are the rule there, occasionally occur in 
Caledonia Creek, N. Y.].” 
The last reference by the Journal to a rumored statement by Agassiz that he had discovered 
' This is the daily paper and should not be confused with the Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History. 
