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The committee on programme found themselves somewhat in doubt in 
regard to the wisest way in which to arrange the programme. It seems that we 
have two kinds of papers—some that are submitted in competition and some 
that are not submitted in competition. The committee on programme have felt 
that it was to the best interests of the congress to have the papers presented 
here irrespective of whether they were or were not offered in competition; and, 
feeling that they had the confidence of the members of the congress to the effect 
that they would be quite impartial in selecting papers for presentation, have 
decided, so far as their work is concerned, to arrange the programme for the suc- 
cessive sessions without respect to the question of competition. The question 
of competition is left to an entirely different committee or committees. 
The committee on programme, moreover, have felt that it would be fair to all 
that the time limit for papers presented should be fifteen minutes, unless voted 
an extension by the congress. It was also felt that discussion would be stimu- 
lated if the time for those discussing the papers presented should, in the initial 
case, be limited to three minutes. Therefore, the chair will follow the instruc- 
tions of the committee, unless it is instructed by the congress to the contrary. 
The chair has been asked to make certain announcements. 
All members of the congress who have not received invitations, cards, et cetera, 
to the President’s reception, Secretary Straus’s reception, the lecture at the 
National Geographic Society, and all other functions connected with the con- 
gress, should call at room roo1, the anteroom in the New Willard, to secure 
these cards of invitation; and I beg of you to keep in touch with room roor. 
It is practically our headquarters between sessions. 
The members of the International Fishery Congress and ladies are invited 
to be the guests of the American Fisheries Society at an informal lunch to-morrow 
at the Arlington Hotel, at 12 o’clock sharp. This is a lunch given by the 
American Fisheries Society, the society that adjourned yesterday in order that 
it might merge its meetings with yours. 
The programme that has been submitted for the meeting this afternoon has 
been roughly outlined upon the blackboard. Mr. Olsen has consented to open 
the congress with his paper, ‘International Regulations of the Fisheries on the 
High Seas.”” Mr. Olsen, will you kindly come forward to the platform? 
Mr. O. T. OLSEN (England). Ladies and gentlemen, I rather regret that I 
should be called upon so early to read the paper which I had prepared but not 
quite finished; and should it be disjointed I hope you will forgive me and let 
me down gently, for I have come a long way on short notice, and therefore have 
not been able to finish what I intended to do. 
The paper relates to a very extensive subject, and to do justice to it here 
would take up considerably more time than we shall be able to afford, as there 
