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toward improving the methods of marine fish culture, and the appliances of his invention are now exclusively employed in the hatching of cod and lobsters. He had been ailing more or less since the winter of 1878-'79, when he suffered from a severe attack of pneumonia, and died July 19. 1886, after a short but painful illness. His death brought sorrow to many friends.
No other branch of the Government besides the Fish Commission has such excellent opportunities for increasing the stores of this department of the Museum or the Naval service, and