60 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
At 1 o’clock the members of the congress were tendered a complimentary 
salmon luncheon by the Alaska Packers’ Association in the banquet hall of the 
New Willard Hotel. Mr. C. W. Dorr, vice-president of the association, presided 
at this function, and remarks were made by Commissioner George M. Bowers, 
Hon. John M. Allen, Hon. William R. Wheeler, Mr. Charles E. Fryer, Mr. H. C. 
Bliss, Mr. John H. Wallace, jr., Prof. Edward E. Prince, and Dr. P. P. C. Hoek. 
At the conclusion of the luncheon Prof. E. A. Birge submitted the report of 
the committee on competitive awards (for which see page 69). 
AFTERNOON SESSION, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 
NEW WILLARD HOTEL. 
The congress was called to order by the president at 3.15 o’clock. 
The PRESIDENT. Will the committee on resolutions kindly submit resolutions 
for the general adoption of the congress? We shall now listen to the illustrated 
paper by Prof. E. A. Birge on ‘“‘ The Gases Dissolved in the Waters of Wisconsin 
Lakes. ” 
[Professor Birge’s paper, followed by discussion by Mr. J. J. Stranahan, 
Dr. Oscar Nordqvist, and Professor Birge, appears on pages 1273-1294.] 
Mr. M.G. SELLERS (Pennsylvania). Mr. President and gentlemen of the 
congress, it is not my purpose to in any way discuss the scientific feature of 
Professor Birge’s paper, but its presentation brings up a very serious question, 
which I thought it might be advisable to express to you to-day. I appear 
before you only in the character of an angler. It is the function of the fish 
commissions to populate inland lakes of the various states. Inland lakes, I 
take it, concern the angler more than they do the commercial fisherman. 
Has it ever occurred to you that outside of a philanthropic effort on the 
part of the owners of the land bordering such lakes, the general public have to 
either pay toll or request the privilege of going in and angling for what the state 
has planted in those waters? I consider that this is a question largely concerning 
the anglers; but, nevertheless, it has a great deal to do with the question of food 
and angling, in so far as it represents the great bulk of the money distributed 
through a state by the sportsmen who seek that kind of pleasure. In my own 
State of Pennsylvania we have not solved that problem. I know of no state yet, 
in the whole United States or in foreign countries, which has solved satisfactorily 
the problem of providing means of ingress and egress for the angling public to 
inland lakes, for the great privilege of enjoying fishing. I had intended to 
bring this subject before you in the shape of a paper, because I think it is a 
burning subject, in that when the state through its departments of a public 
nature propagates fish, to plant them in the waters of the inland lakes, as I have 
described, the general public should, I feel, have some means of ingress and 
egress that they may partake of what the state has done primarily for their 
benefit. 
