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Message:: [QUOTE="DrPam, post: 2523186, member: 15550"]Thank you all for your input and thoughts! With your help, I took a deeper dive and eventually found: William Edward Meehan (Aug 31, 1853- Jan. 7, 1930), named Commissioner of Fisheries (Harrisburg, PA) by Gov. Pennypacker and appointed to (and later President of) the Board of Fishery Commissioners by Gov. Stone; writing in 1905 under the heading, "New Hatching Jar" -- "At the urgent request of the superintendents, I undertook to devise a hatching jar which would meet the undesirable features of those which we had in use and apparently I have succeeded. I have designed a jar having the bottom, like the first mentioned type with a top like the second and with generally a uniform width from bottom to top. Also with a longer lip. I have also got rid of the stem which connected the other types of the jar with the foot and had the foot set against the bottom. This it is hoped will overcome the objectionable breaking feature." And that's about all I can add to the story. We're thinking that on retirement his colleagues presented him with the "commemorative" jar since it was such an improvement over the older versions. Once again, thanks for all your suggestions![/QUOTE]