42 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
The PRESIDENT. The motion has been made favoring the adoption. Is this 
motion seconded? 
[The motion was duly seconded.] 
The PRESIDENT. The matter is now open to discussion. Are there those 
who wish to discuss this report? If not, the motion will be put. 
[The motion was duly carried.] 
The PRESIDENT. Are there other matters to come before the congress? 
Doctor VINCIGUERRA. I am sorry that I can not well explain in English my 
deep gratification and that of my country in realizing that the congress has 
agreed to accept the invitation of the Italian Fisheries Society; and I am sure 
that the members of the congress in Italy will be found in accord in a reception, 
if not so great as in America, as kind and as friendly as that we have had here. 
[Applause. ] 
The PRESIDENT. I am asked to convene the committee on resolutions. 
The committee on resolutions will meet immediately after this afternoon session, 
and the members of that committee I shall again announce, so that there may 
be no misunderstanding. They are Prof. Edward E. Prince, Dr. Tarleton H. 
Bean, and the secretary-general. 
Is there other matter for consideration, Mr. Secretary? 
The SECRETARY-GENERAL. The office is in receipt of a cablegram from the 
Uruguay Lobos Fishing Company, involving a matter which had probably 
better be referred to the committee on resolutions, but which it might not be 
out of order to read: 
Lonpon, September 24, 1908. 
SECRETARY INTERNATIONAL FISHERY CONGRESS, 
Washington. 
Considering the terrible slaughter of seals due to poaching, would the congress 
see their way to include the question of pelagic sealing in their deliberations, as, if 
seals are not protected by international agreement, the species will disappear within 
very few years. 
Urucuay Loxsos FisHinc CoMPANy. 
The PRESIDENT. A second communication has been received. 
The SECRETARY-GENERAL. This is from Mr. Edward Hatch, jr., and reads 
as follows: 
New York, September 23, 1908. 
INTERNATIONAL FISHERY CONGRESS, 
Washington, D. C. 
Please do not fail in your deliberations to call attention to the great damage done 
the fish industry by sewage and manufacturing wastes. 
EpwarpD Harcu, Jr. 
The PRESIDENT. What is your wish in regard to these two important 
communications that have come to us by wire? Ordinarily they would be 
referred to the committee on resolutions. 
[A motion to this effect was made, seconded, and carried.] 
