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THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY AND ITS 

 PROCEEDINGS. 



By Fred Mather. 



This Society is now twenty years old, and has issued 

 eighteen reports of proceedings of its meetings. By an 

 error the second meeting, held at Albany, N. Y. , February 

 7th and 8th, 1872, was called the lirst Annual Meeting (see 

 lirst Report of Proceedings of the American Fish Culturists' 

 Association, page 9); therefore the present meeting is 

 actually the 20th instead of the 19th. The meeting of 

 organization, held in New York, December 20th , 1870, was 

 the first. Under this date the lirst printed Report (Albany, 

 The Argus Company printers, 1872) ojoens as follows : 



"New York City, December 20, 1870: A meeting of 

 practical lish culturists was held in this city to-day, in 

 compliance with a call issued November 1st by W, Clift, 

 A. S. Collins, J. H. Slack, F. Mather, and L. Stone." It 

 then relates that Mr. Clift was chosen Chairman and Mr. 

 Stone Secretary ; a permanent organization was formed 

 and a Constitution adopted. The Report of this meeting 

 appeared in newspapers only, until it was copied into the 

 Report of the second meeting in 1872, which, as before 

 stated, was erroneously called the lirst. 



The earlier Reports are not to be obtained now, and I 

 doubt if more than half a dozen complete sets are in exist- 

 ence. As an original member, having all the Reports, it 

 has been thought that a review of the proceedings, in the 

 nature of an index with notes, might be of value, and the 

 following is offered : 



LIST OF REPORTS PUBLISHED. 



1. Proceedings American Fish Culturists' Association, 

 "organized December 20th, 1870," Albany: The Argus 

 Company, printers, 1872, [56 pages including two meetings]. 



