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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A Tribute to Hon. E. E. Bryant BY GEORGE F. PEABODY, APPLETON, WIS. Mr. Peabody: (Before reading paper.) The older memtors of the society who have been in the habit of attending the meetings, are familiar with the cheery personality of Gen. Bryant. Those who have not had the pleasure and opportunity may learn something from what may be said regarding him, of his life and character. I have been asked by the President, and the executive committee, because of my long acquaintance, to say a few words in memory of ou...
Fishing the Great Lakes is a sweeping history of the destruction of the once-abundant fisheries of the great "inland seas" that lie between the United States and Canada. Though lake trout, whitefish, freshwater herring, and sturgeon were still teeming as late as 1850, Margaret Bogue documents here how overfishing, pollution, political squabbling, poor public policies, and commercial exploitation combined to damage the fish populations even before the voracious sea lamprey invaded the lakes and decimated the lake trout population in the 1940s. From the earliest records of fishing by native peoples, through the era of European exploration and settlement, to the growth and collapse of the comme...