fact, but I know that the individual angler can go alongside of those boats and procure the fish at a small sum.

PRESIDENT:

paper.

The Secretary will announce the next

ACTING SECRETARY: Prof. Francis H. Herrick, Adelbert College, Cleveland, Ohio, sends a paper on "Protecting the Lobster," with the suggestion that it be read in full or by title only, according to the exigencies of the occasion.

DR. OSBURN: Professor Herrick's paper is of such an excellent character that the committee thought it best to read the paper even though he is absent.

Dr. Osburn then read Professor Herrick's paper, which was discussed.

The Acting Secretary then read a paper written by Mr. E. W. Barnes, of the Rhode Island Fisheries Commission, entitled "The Season of 1910 at the Fisheries Experiment Station at Wickford, R. I., which was discussed.

PRESIDENT: The next paper will be read by a gentleman to whom we are under great obligations for his assistance in making this meeting a success. Dr. Raymond C. Osburn, of Columbia University, and Assistant Director of this Aquarium, will speak on "The Effects of Exposure on the Gill Filaments of Fishes."

DR. Osburn's paper was then read and discussed.

PRESIDENT: The Secretary has started to prepare a history of the Society. He has merely the rough draft today, and will read only a small portion of it, as a great deal of it is necessarily statistical, but really should be put in the report when it is fully completed, because it will save some one else a lot of time in compiling the same set of facts.

The Acting Secretary, Mr. Ward T. Bower, United States Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C., then read a "History of the American Fisheries Society.'

Mr. Roy W. Miner, Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, then spoke

on "The Study of Marine Ecology and its Importance to the Fisheries." Discussion followed.

PRESIDENT: Fish have diseases and consequently we must have fish doctors to diagnose and prescribe for those diseases. Our next paper will be by one of the fish doctors of the Bureau of Fisheries, Mr. M. C. Marsh, who will present a paper on "Thyroid Tumors in Salmonoids."

Mr. Marsh's paper was then read and discussed.

PAPERS READ BY TITLE

PRESIDENT: We have about 15 more papers and if you think it is too late to read them, the Chair will entertain a motion that they be read by title and printed in the proceedings.

MR. MEEHAN: I move that the papers remaining be read by title and published in the proceedings.

The motion was seconded and unanimously carried.
Papers were then read by title as follows:

John P. Babcock, Chief Deputy California Fish and Game Commission, San Francisco, Cal.-"Some Experiments in the Burial of Salmon Eggs, Suggesting a New Method of Hatching Salmon and Trout.”

Dr. S. P. Bartlett, U. S. Fisheries Station, Quincy, Ill.— "Rescue Work-The Saving of Fishes from Overflowed Lands."

D. C. Booth, Superintendent U. S. Fisheries Station, Spearfish, S. D.-"Fish-Cultural Possibilities of the National Preserves."

W. O. Buck, U. S. Fisheries Station, Neosho, Mo."Pike-Perch Notes."

Prof. T. L. Hankinson, Charleston, Ill.-"Ecological Notes on the Fishes of Walnut Lake."

John L. Leary, Superintendent U. S. Fisheries, San Marcos, Texas.-"The Sunfish."

H. Wheeler Perce, President National Association of

Scientific Angling Clubs.-"Some General Remarks on Fishing for Sport."

Dr. Hugh M. Smith, U. S. Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries, Washington, D. C.-"The North Atlantic Fisheries Dispute and its Arbitration at The Hague."

E. A. Tulian, New Orleans, La.-"Five Years' Progress in Fish Culture in Argentina."

S. G. Worth, Superintendent U. S. Fisheries Station, Mammoth Spring, Ark.-"Observations on the Natural Food of Small-mouth Bass Fry at Mammoth Spring Station, Arkansas."

PRESIDENT: I am requested by an old member to bring the following to your attention: He desires to have published in the proceedings of this meeting the names of commissioners and superintendents of all the states, the amount of money appropriated by Congress for the Bureau of Fisheries and by the different states, the number of fish planted under the direction of the Bureau and the different states, these data to be incorporated in our next report. What action will you take on this request? It would be a good idea in some respects, although we are going to have an enormously large report, as it is. You know the discussions that have been had and the papers that have already been presented, and there are about 15 papers that have been read by title and are to be printed; but as this request is made by an ex-president and an old member, it is entitled to consideration.

DR. TOWNSEND:

It would involve a vast amount of

work for an unpaid secretary.

MR. CLARK: I move the matter be laid on the table until our next annual meeting.

The motion was seconded and carried.

CLOSING PROCEEDINGS

PRESIDENT: When you elected me as President a year ago, I felt a sense of honor and appreciation which I could not adequately express in words. I am a good deal in the

same embarrassing situation at the present moment with respect to the cordial and united support that has been accorded me during the year. I want to thank each member individually, and I want to thank you all collectively for what you have done to make my administration a success, and which has culminated, through your efforts and not my own, in making this one of the best meetings in the history of the Society.

My only hope is that you will accord my successor, each and everyone of you, the same support that you have me, and that the next meeting will be a much better one than this, and much better attended.

As the time is too short for any extended remarks, or any formalities, I will appoint Mr. Titcomb as a committee of one to escort the new President to the chair, and his term of office will begin upon his introduction.

The President-elect, Mr. W. E. Meehan, was escorted to the chair by Mr. Titcomb.

MR. TITCOMB: Gentlemen of the American Fisheries Society, I have just been called upon to introduce the incoming President, and, as the retiring President has said, this is no time for extended remarks. Mr. Meehan is known to all of us; he has been a very earnest, hard-working member and has brought with him to these meetings, for a great number of years, 12 or 13 of the fish culturists at his hatcheries, all of whom seem to think they are getting much interesting and useful information here. I hope all the other commissioners will profit by this example hereafter. I have great pleasure in introducing your new President, Mr. Meehan. (Applause.)

Mr. Meehan took the chair.

PRESIDENT W. E. MEEHAN: Ladies and gentlemen of the American Fisheries Society: It has been considered by me an honor and a privilege to be a member of the American Fisheries Society. I have been a member for nearly twenty years and have taken a very active part for nearly half that period, sometimes perhaps to the dissat

isfaction of some of my friends. Thus esteeming the honor of membership, I appreciate the more deeply the honor of the office which you have conferred upon me.

I feel that I have a big task before me on account of the splendid work of the preceding President. I shall do my best, however, to maintain his record. If my administration is successful, or if it should turn out that there is a better and larger meeting next year than this, it will not be due to me, but to you, who should endeavor to achieve, if possible, greater success even than has my predecessor, Mr. Bower.

(Applause.)

The Society has reached a point where it must be from this time forward a big factor in a wider field than it has hitherto occupied. I have watched it grow from the time when only a few members were here, to the time when we had a large membership, from the time when discussions were limited principally to trout and carp, to the broad field of taking in nearly all the valuable food fishes that we have in the country.

We are going now to another and stronger position which we have been urged in this meeting to take, namely the purification of the waters, in order that the labors of fish culturists may bear greater fruit. Why should we attempt to propagate fish, if the waters are in such condition that plankton will not successfully grow? It will be part of the province of this Society to work for the purification of our waters. Some of the states need legislation toward that end and I believe that we can do much in securing such legislation.

Gentlemen, I shall do the best I can in the coming year, and I again thank you for the honor which you have bestowed upon me. (Applause.)

I think we usually have a few words from other officerselect, and I will appoint Dr. Townsend as a committee of one to escort the new Vice-President to the chair, to hear a few words from him.

Dr. Townsend escorted Mr. Fullerton to the platform.