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teentli Annual Meeting, lield at tlie National Museum, in 

 Washington, D. C, May Sth and 6tli, 1875. New York, 

 1885" [106 pages; no printer's name, but Davis did it]. 



15. Transactions American Fisheries Society, " Fif- 

 teenth Annual Meeting, held at the Palmer House, Chicago, 

 111., April 18th and 14th, 1886. New York, 1886" [100 

 pages ; no printer's name, but Davis did it]. 



16. Transactions American Fisheries Society, " Six- 

 teenth Annual Meeting, held at the National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, May 31st and June 1st, 1887. New 

 York, 1887" [72 pages; no printer's name, but was done 

 by Davis]. 



17. Transactions American Fisheries Society, ' ' Seven- 

 teenth Annual Meeting, held in Elk's Hall, Detroit, Mich., 

 May 15th and 16th, 1888. New York, 1888" [115 pages ; 

 no printer's name; the work was done by Martin B. Brown, 

 New York]. 



18. Transactions American Fisheries Society, "Eight- 

 eenth Annual Meeting, held at the rooms of the Anglers' 

 Association of Eastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 

 15th and 16th, 1889 ; Spangler & Davis, 529 Commerce 

 Street, Philadelphia" [87 pages]. 



These Reports are tilled with interesting papers on sub- 

 jects not only connected with tish culture, but also on 

 molluscs, crustaceans, ichthyology, chemical composition 

 and nutritive value of food lishes, tish-ways, statistics of 

 tisheries, and other subjects of interest, by some of the 

 foremost scientists and tish culturists of the world. After 

 many of the papers a discussion on the subject follows, 

 which is often of as much importance as the paper itself, 

 inasmuch as it gives, in terse language, the views of others 

 on the subject, and frequently causes the writer to elucidate 

 some point which, while perfectly clear to himself, has not 

 been treated in detail. 



It is fortunate for the owners of the earlier Reports that 



