38 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
Dr. HERMON C. Bumpus. Mr. President, on behalf of Doctor Mead, who has 
been working for a number of years upon the problems connected with the 
propagation of the lobster, I would like to present informally to this congress 
reports upon his work, which are submitted in this substantial manner [show- 
ing manuscript and illustrations], and which I trust certain members who are 
interested in this work will examine. 
[Doctor Bumpus then gave an abstract of the two papers by Dr. A. D. Mead, 
‘‘A Method of Lobster Culture” and ‘‘A New Principle of Aquiculture,’’ which 
are given in full on pages 219-240 and 759-780.] 
Vice-President HoEK. Gentlemen, in the absence of Doctor Mead, I 
think we owe great thanks to Professor Bumpus for the excellent way in which 
he has given us a summary of these most interesting papers. I may say it, 
because they belong to a group of papers submitted to a committee of which I 
have the pleasure and honor to be chairman—the committee on awards. Of 
course, it would be entirely indiscreet to tell you about the conclusion to which 
that committee will come; at the same time, I am perfectly at liberty to say 
that we have at the present moment a very high regard for these excellent papers, 
not only for the contents but also for the excellent way in which these papers 
have been prepared, and the most excellent photographs and illustrations which 
are added to them. So, gentlemen, perhaps it will be of use to have them 
circulated among you, and, by all means, if the gentlemen wish to review them it 
will give me great pleasure to hand them over. 
Before proceeding, the secretary-general is to give you a short announce- 
ment. 
The SECRETARY-GENERAL. The office of the congress has received through 
our State Department communications from practically all of the governments 
of the earth in regard to their participation in this congress. Among the 
absentees which we particularly regret is Russia, a country which has such 
important fisheries and fishery resources. We have received only this morning 
through our State Department a communication from the American ambassador 
at St. Petersburg, in which he states that the foreign office has just advised him 
that they can not be represented at this congress, since they have but two 
fishery experts, Doctor von Grimm, who is an old man and can not get ready in 
time, and Mr. Borodine, who has just completed a term in prison for signing 
the Viborg manifesto, and whom they are unwilling to send on such a mission at 
this time. [Laughter.] 
Vice-President HoEK. We next come, gentlemen, to a paper by Mr. Charles 
G. Atkins, Superintendent of the Fisheries Station at East Orland, Maine, 
entitled ‘‘Foods for Young Salmonoid Fishes.” Is Mr. Atkins present? 
Mr. CuarveEs G. AtKins. Mr. President and members of the Fishery Con- 
gress, I have a paper here on food for young salmonoid fishes. I much regret 
that the time at the disposal of the congress does not allow me to read this in 
full, as in the abstract that I shall give you I shall be obliged to omit a great 
