2 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



The cb airman appointed Dr. G. Brown Goode, Prof. S. A. Forbes, Capt. J. W. 

 Collins, and Dr. T. H. Bean a committee to prepare a program of subjects appropriate for 

 discussion ; after wbicb the committee adjourned, subject to the call of the chairman. 



The president of the World's Congress Auxiliary (Hon. Charles C. Bouney) was 

 advised of the preliminary steps taken by the general committee, and notices were 

 sent to the persons named informing them of their selection by the World's Congress 

 Auxiliary for the duties mentioned. Those who accepted the nomination to member- 

 ship upon the general committee were Marshall McDonald, G. Brown Goode, S. A. 

 Forbes, E. G. Blackford, Tarleton H. Bean, and B. E. Earll. 



The second meeting of the general committee was held in the office of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission exhibit at the World's Fair, June 19, 1893. At this meeting the 

 secretary of the general committee was requested to draw up a preliminary circular 

 defining the nature and aims of the Congress. A discussion of this circular was 

 entered into and a draft of the main subjects was prepared by the committee. 



The third meeting was held in the office of Mr. E. G. Blackford, Fulton Market, 

 New York, July 30, 1893. At this meeting additions were made to the list of members 

 of the advisory council, and the secretary was appointed chairman of a local committee 

 of arrangements, with power to select two other members from the general committee, 

 these members to make all of the necessary arrangements for the meetings of the 

 Fisheries Congress. As the range of topics suggested a natural division into five 

 sections, it was proposed to select chairmen for these groups of topics, and the fol- 

 lowing persons were nominated to act as chairmen : 



Section 1 : Fishery laws and regulations, Dr. William M. Hudson, Hartford. 



Conn. 

 Section 2 : Science in relation to the fisheries and fish-culture, Dr. G. Brown 



Goode, Washington, D. C. 

 Section 3: Methods employed in the capture and utilization of fishery prod- 

 ucts, Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Washington, D. C. 

 Section 4: Fish-culture, Hon. E. G. Blackford, New York City. 

 Section 5: The World's fisheries, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Washington, D. C. 



All of these persons accepted the nomination and assisted in the collection of 

 papers to be read at the meetings. It was afterwards, however, found expedient to 

 combine Sections 3 and 5, and Dr. Smith served as chairman during the session 

 devoted to these groups. Meanwhile the president of the World's Congress Auxiliary 

 assigned to the Fisheries Congress a place on the program of the agricultural con- 

 gresses and fixed upon the week beginning October 16 as the period for holdiug the 

 sessions. 



The fourth meeting of the general committee was held in the office of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission exhibit, Jackson Park, on September 24. There were present 

 Messrs. E. G. Blackford, S. A. Forbes, and Tarleton H. Bean. Mr. Blackford acted 

 as chairman of the meeting. Arrangements for the hour and date of the meetings of 

 the Congress were assigned to the secretary of the general committee, but, upon 

 motion of Prof. Forbes, an evening session was decided upon for October 17. The 

 subject of a fish banquet was informally discussed and was deferred until the meeting 

 of the local committee at the office of Mr. A. Booth, of Chicago, on Monday, Septem- 

 ber 25. Prof. Forbes was appointed a committee to make the arrangements for such 

 meetings as might be necessary to be held in the World's Pair Grounds. 



