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me to be of sufficient importance to be brought again before the attention of the 
congress. I will ask him kindly to make that’ statement made to me a moment 
ago. 
[Mr. Fullerton’s statement appears on page 695.] 
The PRESIDENT. Unless there is some other business to be transacted before 
we proceed to the reading of the papers, the chair will now call for the papers 
as listed on the blackboard. 
Doctor Meek, will you give the initial paper this morning? 
Dr. S. E. MEEK (Field Museum, Chicago). I have some lantern slides. 
The PRESIDENT. Is the operator not here? Then, in view of Doctor Smith's 
return, I will ask the secretary-general to present the paper of Mr. N. Borodine. 
The SECRETARY-GENERAL. It will probably be desirable, Mr. President, to 
refer this communication to the committee on resolutions. Mr. Borodine writes 
as follows: 
PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONDENSED DICTIONARY OF THE TERMINI TECHNICI 
USED IN THE FISHERIES AND FISH CULTURE. : 
One of the most important tasks of the International Fishery Congress is to make as 
easy as possible the study of the state of the fisheries and fish culture in all countries and 
to unite efforts of the specialists for the advancement of applied science concerning 
fishery matters and of the fishery industries themselves. A great obstacle to this, 
however, as to all other branches of science, is the difference of the languages in which 
the works on ichthyology, fish culture, and the fisheries are printed, and in the difficulty, 
well known to every body of colleagues, when they try to understand even only the 
most important points, such as conclusions, statistical tables, explanation of figures, 
ete., of a work written in an unfamiliar language. It is impossible to overcome this 
difficulty with an ordinary dictionary, because termini technici are not to be found 
there, and they are often very different even in the same language. 
Having had, in the character of editor of the Revue Internationale de Péche et de la 
Pisciculture, much to do with the periodicals and books on fisheries and fish culture 
written in all European languages, I know very well, by my own experience, how diffi- 
cult it is, for instance, to make any use of the works written in Danish, Dutch, Hun- 
garian, and other seldom-learned languages. Though the Latin saves us the difficulty, 
so far as concerns the names of fishes, it can not help us to understand all the other things 
in the book, sometimes the most interesting. Therefore I have always thought it 
would be very useful if the specialists of all countries would draw up a kind of little 
information book or dictionary in which should be found (1) names of all commercial 
fishes and other fishes and animals that are of some interest to the fishing industries, 
to sportsmen, and in fish culture; (2) denominations of the most important fishing 
appliances used by professional fishermen and sportsmen; (3) denominations of fishery 
vessels, boats, and the principal vessel implements; (4) denominations of the principal 
fishery products; (5) measures, weights, utensils, etc., used in fishery business, also the 
different moneys; (6) list of the principal termini technici used in fish culture. All of 
these denominations ought to be given in the following languages: French, English, 
German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Russian (with Latin and Rus- 
sian letters), Hungarian, Roumanian, and Japanese (with Latin and Japanese letters). 
Moreover, names of fishes should also be given, it should be understood, in Latin. 
To accomplish such a work is not possible but in a collective way, with collaboration 
of the specialists of each country upon the six categories mentioned above. Naturally 
the book should first of all be written, as full as possible, in one of the languages, and then 
