36 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
and on the conclusion of Director Townsend’s paper we will proceed to the 
Arlington Hotel for luncheon. 
Mr. Follett states that in view of there having been a large number of 
applications, or, perhaps, regrets, on the part of members of this congress that 
they were not fortunate enough to see the extraordinary exhibition of moving 
pictures last evening at the Geographical Society building, those pictures will 
again be put on the screen this afternoon at 5 o’clock at the same place, so that 
if you or your friends wish to come at 5 o’clock this afternoon you will be quite 
welcome. 
The chair has been asked the duration of the touring trip this afternoon. 
It will consume practically two hours, the party leaving at 3 and returning 
about 5 o'clock. 
The only other item on the programme this morning is the paper by Director 
Townsend, and I will ask Mr. Townsend to come to the platform. 
Mr. CHARLES H. TOWNSEND (Director New York Aquarium). Mr. Presi- 
dent and members of the congress, I shall take up only a few minutes of your 
time with this old story of the fur-seal fisheries; it is an old story to a great 
many of the officers of the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington. I suppose I can 
give you a very condensed account of it in about fifteen minutes, and then it 
will take about ten or fifteen minutes more to show you a few lantern slides I 
have brought along. 
[For this paper see pages 315-322.] 
On the conclusion of Mr. Townsend’s paper, at 12 o’clock, the congress 
adjourned, and the members proceeded to the Arlington Hotel, where a com- 
plimentary luncheon was tendered by the American Fisheries Society. 
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23. 
RECEPTION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE WHITE HOUSE. 
The members of the congress and accompanying ladies assembled at the 
White House, and at 2.30 o’clock were received by President Roosevelt in the 
East Room. ‘The President greeted the members as follows: 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I shall not try to make you any address, because I am to 
have the pleasure of shaking hands with each of you. I shall simply say what a pleas- 
ure it is to me to greet you here. I have grown to feel more and more that the problem 
of the conservation of natural resources is the great material problem before modern 
nations. Savages, barbarians, semicivilized people, and a good many civilized people 
do nothing but waste natural resources, and it is our business as we become more civi- 
lized to try to conserve them. That applies exactly as much to fisheries as it does to 
forests. One of the problems that will come up in connection with our treaties with 
foreign nations hereafter must be the arrangement of a method of preserving inter- 
national fisheries—such fisheries as those in Lake Erie and Puget Sound. It is an outrage 
