An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . mlet (parr) were AXfil-IXC DAYS AND AXGLIXCi \VK1T1-:RS. 15 the same, or that brouk truut were not in fact immature salmon. The scieiuilicworld has moved since them. In 1865, the year following his first production, Mr. Roosevelt put out asupplementary book, entitled Superior l-i.^hing, relating chiefly to the fishes ofthe Great Lakes. These two books, as well as my Fishing Tourist and PrimesI Go a-Fishing (1873) were all pu^ili^hed by the Harper Brothers. Not only must Mr. Roosevelt be recog
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . mlet (parr) were AXfil-IXC DAYS AND AXGLIXCi \VK1T1-:RS. 15 the same, or that brouk truut were not in fact immature salmon. The scieiuilicworld has moved since them. In 1865, the year following his first production, Mr. Roosevelt put out asupplementary book, entitled Superior l-i.^hing, relating chiefly to the fishes ofthe Great Lakes. These two books, as well as my Fishing Tourist and PrimesI Go a-Fishing (1873) were all pu^ili^hed by the Harper Brothers. Not only must Mr. Roosevelt be recognized as a well-informed author ofundoubted accuracy and reliability, but he was with Agassiz, Baird,Theodatus Garlick, Ainsworth, Samuels, Prime, Mather, Sage, Seth Green, Slack,Krider, Norris, Royal Phelps, and other ichthyologists in the promotion of fishculture and preservation of fish. He was for many years, and up to the timeof his death, president of the New York City Association for the Preservation ofGame and Ji-li, ard wrote many articles nn angling kindred subjects in tho. MT. FROM . AHOL l)v -Mr. Charles Hallock in 1859. Citizen, which he published in 1850-57. Verily, he is entitled to a leading place inhistory, and let the fraternity of anglers freely accord it. Honor to whomhonor is due. As to Norris: Forty-six years have passed since the first editiijii of IncleThad. Norris remarkable book appeared, and of all the cognate wliicbhave subsequently been written, few have been able to add or subtract anythingto materially affect the integrity of the work or make themselves of better am making no reference, of course, to the transcendent works of the purelyscientific field, in which the scale system, the lateral line, and the hyoid bone playso important a part. The American Anglers Book is today by long odds thebest home book extant upon the broad subjects of which it treats, and this con-ceded precedence
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