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Adjournment was taken, with announcement of an informal meeting at the 
National Geographical Society building at 8 o’clock in the evening. 
At 8 o’clock p. m., at the invitation of Mr. Richard E. Follett, vice-president 
and manager of the New England Forest, Fish, and Game Association, the 
members proceeded to the hall of the National Geographic Society and wit- 
nessed an exhibition of motion pictures of fishing, hunting, and logging scenes, 
some of which had never before been displayed. 
MORNING SESSION, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 
NEW WILLARD HOTEL. 
The congress was called to order by the president at 9.45 o’clock. 
[After calling for Prof. E. E. Prince and Dr. I. A. Field, who did not respond, 
the chair recognized Chevalier Guido Rossati, who spoke on “‘ Economic Condi- 
tions of the Fisheries in Italy.” Mr. Rossati’s remarks appear in full on pages 
323-332. 
Dr. Tasaku Kitahara then read a paper entitled ‘‘ The Fisheries of Japan, 
Considered from the Geographical Standpoint.’’ This paper will be found on 
pages 375-379.] 
The PRESIDENT. The paper of Doctor Kitahara is open for discussion. 
Are there questions to be asked in regard to the fisheries in Japan? Are there 
experiments that have been made that we can profit by? If the paper is not 
discussed, I will then ask for the next, a paper by Mr. Charles H. Stevenson; 
and in introducing Mr. Stevenson I would like to present to the congress a book 
that has recently appeared, of which Dr. George F. Kunz and Mr. Stevenson 
are joint authors. This book will be placed on the table here for inspection. 
It is entitled ‘‘The Book of the Pearl,” and it is bound in form appropriate to 
the contents. It is a most beautiful volume. 
[Mr. Stevenson dealt with ‘‘ Preservation of fisheries on the high seas,’’ 
reading extracts on this subject from his paper on “International Regulations 
of the Fisheries of the High Seas,’”’ which appears in full on pages 103-178.] 
The PRESIDENT. The paper that you have listened to is now open to 
discussion. 
[The paper was thereupon discussed by Mr. Olsen and Mr. Fryer, for 
whose remarks see pages 179 and 180.] 
The PRESIDENT. Are there others who will speak on this most interesting 
topic? I imagine that we have discovered this morning an authority for a 
forthcoming work on piscicultural jurisprudence. If there are no others to 
speak on this matter, I will call for another paper that bears upon the subject, 
by Mr. Dennis. 
B. B. F. 1908—3 
