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and the need for reform, protest, and action. Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt and Vice-President Cleveland both 

 sent papers or letters commending the work done and 

 proposed. The programme was as follows: 



HONEST ANGLERS' CONVENTION 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY 



November Eleventh, Nineteen Seven 



"The True Sporting Spirit." Address by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of 

 Princeton College, N. J. 



"The Grayling." Paper by Dr. David Starr Jordan, President 

 Stanford University, California. 



"To THE Tip-Top of the United States in Search of the Golden 

 Trout." Paper with Stereopticon Views by Dr. Barton Warren Everman, 

 Ichthyologist of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



"The Great Game Fishes of the Pacific Slope and what has been 

 Done to Protect Them." Paper with Stereopticon Views by Charles 

 Frederick Holder, President Santa Cataliua Island Tuna Club, California. 



"The Fish Cultural Work of the New York Fish, Forest, and 

 Game Commission." Paper by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, of the New York 

 Commission. 



"Thaddeus Norms and Bob Roosevelt in Angling Literature 

 and their Fish Protective Cbleeds." Paper by Mr. Charles Hallock, 

 Founder of Forest and Stream. 



Other valuable contributions were read. 



This work has been going on for years, and the 

 result is the extraordinary fleet of angling boats at 

 Avalon Bay, all with fine and expensive equipments, 

 with a motto — "Fair play to game fishes, and the 

 lightest possible tackle." The mere suggestion of a 

 hand-line in these vales of peace and big fish arouses 

 ridicule and resentment, and no one can go fishing at 

 these islands from Santa Barbara to Los Coronados 

 without receiving a lesson in the ethics of the gentle 

 art of angling. The Tuna Club endeavors to encour- 



