46 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
MORNING SESSION, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 
NEW WILLARD HOTEL. 
The congress was duly convened by the president at 9.45 o’clock. 
The PRESIDENT. We will now begin our work. Are there any matters to 
be presented by the secretary? 
The SECRETARY-GENERAL. Mr. President and gentlemen, many messages 
of good will and greeting have come to the congress from persons who are 
prevented from being with us. The cable message from the distinguished 
president of the Third International Fishery Congress has already been read. 
Among the other messages received have been the following: 
Mr. Nicholas Borodine, Secretary-General of the Second International 
Fishery Congress and late Chief Specialist in Fish Culture in the Russian Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, asks that his best wishes be given to the members of the 
congress, and to those members who remember him he sends his special regards 
and his assurance that though unavoidably absent he is with them in spirit. 
Dr. David Starr Jordan, United States International Fishery Commissioner, 
writes: 
Will you kindly present my compliments to the Fishery Congress and express to 
them my interest in their work? It is a matter of sincere regret to me that I can not 
be present at this auspicious meeting. The affairs of the university, combined with 
the work of the International Commission of Fisheries, occupy all my available time, 
and I must forego the honor and the pleasure of being associated with this convention. 
Mr. H. Wheeler Perce, president of the National Association of Scientific 
Angling Clubs, has written a very interesting letter, which will be published 
among the papers of the congress. [See pages 193-198.] 
Greetings have come from— 
Dr. E. L. Mark, of the Zoological Laboratory of Harvard University, at 
Cambridge, Mass., and Director of the Biological Station at Hamilton, Bermuda. 
Prof. Dr. Bruno Hofer, of the Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fisheries, 
Munich, Germany. 
Dr. Ernst Ehrenbaum, of the Royal Biological Experiment Station at 
Helgoland, Germany. 
Dr. H. Henking, of the German Fishery Society, Berlin, Germany. 
Prof. Jules Cotte, of the Marine Zoological Station of the University of 
Marseille, France. 
I would also like to bring to the attention of the congress at this time 
some recently published or manuscript works which have been presented by 
their respective authors for the information of the congress. 
[The secretary-general read a list of the works that had been submitted, 
which list, with later additions, appears on page 74.] 
The PrEesIDENT. Mr. Fullerton has just spoken to me about a matter of 
general misunderstanding in regard to the whitefish question, and it seems to 
