invitation to tlie Association to visit the ponds of the Club 

 and partake of a trout dinner. 



On motion of Dr. H. H. Gary, of Georgia, the thanks of 

 the Society were given the members of the Castalia Trout 

 Club for their kind invitation. 



The President read a letter from Mr. Frank Clark, of the 

 United States Fish Commission, regretting his absence 

 from the meeting. 



The President then addressed the meeting at length. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the American Fisheries Society : 



I congratulate you njion so large an attendance at so re- 

 mote a place as Put-in-Bay, Ohio. For many of our mem- 

 bers to come here involves a journey of some hardshij:* 

 and considerable expense ; that we have here to-day gen- 

 tlemen from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minne- 

 sota, and Wisconsin is proof that interest in the Society 

 and its work has by no means lessened. 



I hope that when we shall meet at some more central 

 place, although none perhaps can equal this as to beauty 

 of surroundings, a still larger number of our members may 

 be present. All things considered, however, this promises 

 to be one of the most successful of our meetings, and I 

 have no doubt that the object of our Society will be grati- 

 fyingly promoted. 



It may not be amiss at this 2:)oint to say something about 

 the original design of this Association, and to give some 

 idea of the work it has accomplished. Eighteen years ago 

 the Socnety was organized under the name of the American 

 Fish Culturists Association by a few practical lish cul- 

 turists, who hoped to make it an aid to the financial part of 

 their business, and to secure, if possible, a better and more 

 uniform price for the x^roduct of their skill. The aims and 



