The President appointed as such committee W. L. May, 

 A. N. Cheney, and Richard Rathburn. 



Mr. Amsden extended an invitation to the Society to 

 hold its next meeting in Rochester. 



No action was taken. 



Dr. J. A. Henshall then read a pai:)er entitled "The teeth 

 of tishes as a gnide to their food habits." 



After the reading, the Cliair said : "I would state that it 

 lias been our custom always, after the reading of a paper, to 

 invite discussion of the topic that is presented. Is it the 

 pleasure of any gentleman to ask any question or to discuss 

 the paper that has just been read V 



Mr. Ford said : " 1 merely wish to corroborate the state- 

 ment made by Dr. Henshall as to the black bass ; that it is 

 not so destructive a fish as is generally supposed. I pre- 

 sume I have examined the stomachs of at least a thousand 

 black bass. The Delaware is a great shad river ; it is full 

 of shad ; but of the great number of black bass that I have 

 examined, I never found but two shad in their stomachs. 

 I attribute this partly to tlie fact that the shad swims in 

 the deej) water of the river, while the black bass seeks its 

 food along the shore. The bass are not so destructive to 

 the shad as a great many people tell us." 



Mr. Mather said: "Dr. Henshall mentions what is, I 

 believe, a fact, that the black bass is not as destructive as 

 the brook trout ; that it does not eat tish as freely. I will 

 state that while fishing with Mr. Huntington one day this 

 Spring, I took a trout, with a hy, about ten inches long, and 

 in its throat it had a sun-fish an inch and a half long." 



Mr. Cheney said : "In Lake George, where the lake trout 

 have had any quantity of food for years and years, a sun- 

 tlsli was taken there two years ago from the stomach of a 

 lake trout, thus corroborating what Dr. Henshall has 

 stated." 



Mr. Seal said : " In the aquaria of the Fish Commission 

 at the Central Station, the Atlantic salmon, the land-locked 



