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to leave them to be squandered so that our children shall lose all benefit from them, and 
some method must be devised by international agreement for preserving them. 
I am glad to have the opportunity of seeing you. 
Each of the members was then presented to President Roosevelt by the 
secretary-general. 
Following the President’s reception a group photograph of the delegation 
was taken on the west portico of the Treasury Department building. 
The remainder of the afternoon was spent in an automobile tour of the city 
for sight-seeing. 
At 7.30 o’clock p. m., the members visited the Library of Congress in 
special cars, and were received by officials of the Library. 
MORNING SESSION, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 
NEW WILLARD HOTEL. 
The congress was duly called to order by the president at 9.50 o’clock. 
The PRESIDENT. There are here on exhibition a few specimens that were 
submitted in competition for one of the prizes. These three specimens are sub- 
mitted by one competitor. Here [indicating] is another specimen that is sub- 
mitted by another competitor. I hope at your convenience you will examine 
them. 
Are there matters of business to come before the congress? Upon the 
blackboard are listed the papers that will be presented to-day, and as faras pos- 
sible they will be called for in that order. Of course, there are some gentlemen 
who have been unable to get their papers back from the committee on awards. 
We will now call for the first paper,asannounced on the board. Dr. W. W. Yen 
is to present a paper on ‘‘ The Fisheries of China.’ Doctor Yen, will you please 
come to the platform? 
[This paper will be found on pages 367-373.] 
The PRESIDENT. I think if we had come here merely to listen to this one 
paper we would have been repaid. As an indication of the progress in China, 
not only have we listened to this paper—this astonishing paper—but China has 
also delegated six persons to attend this congress, four of whom you must have 
noted are in constant attendance. The discussion of this paper and the pres- 
entation of other matter bearing upon the progressive attitude that China is 
taking in regard to the fisheries will be undertaken by Mr. Chang Po Ling, who 
is the special commissioner from Tientsin. 
[Mr. Chang, however, asked to be excused, as having had little experience 
in public speaking. | 
The PRESIDENT. At this hour, with your permission, I would ask to be 
relieved of occupying the chair, and will Doctor Hoek kindly take it? 
[Whereupon Vice-President P. P. C. Hoek took the chair.] 
