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paper; consequently, although this is one that has been awarded a prize by the 
committee on awards, I shall take the liberty of cutting it in such fashion as to 
present the essential features and leave out the other matter which is not neces- 
sary to your comprehension at the present moment. I consequently pass over 
the introduction, which deals with the work of all previous investigators, includ- 
ing our chairman, Doctor Gill, and shall proceed at once to the second section of 
the paper, the general principles involved in the field study of fishes. Possibly I 
neglected to mention the exact title, ““Methods of Studying the Habits and 
Recording the Life Histories of Fishes.”’ 
[This paper, read in abstract, is printed in full on pages 1111—1136.] 
The ActiInG CHAIRMAN. The chair thanks Doctor Ward for the distinct and 
excellent rendition that he has made of Doctor Reighard’s paper. The donor of 
the prize, assuming that the entire memoir is of the same character as the part 
read, thinks that the award was amply justified, and is very much gratified that 
such an excellent paper has been produced. In respect to the species whose life 
history has been recorded it would, however, be well, I think, if Professor 
Reighard would add that the same characteristics of nest building are manifest 
in the other species of the genus Semotius; that is, in Semotilus bullaris. It has 
been denied that Semotilus bullaris exercised this function of parental supervision. 
Doctor Abbott many years ago denied it in the most explicit manner, but recently 
a member of the Bureau of Fisheries, Doctor Kendall, has observed the habits, 
and has well illustrated it in a recent report published by the Bureau of Fish- 
eries, giving the details of his work in New Hampshire and Maine. 
The chair congratulates the congress upon the happy results of its meeting 
here, upon the excellent papers that have been presented, the harmonious rela- 
tions that have been established; and the meeting will now stand adjourned 
sine die. 
Thereupon, at 5.50 o’clock p. m., the congress took final adjournment. 
During the week following the adjournment o1 the congress a party of 
foreign and local delegates visited points of special interest in New York and 
New England in accordance with a prearranged programme. 
On September 28 Mr. Charles H. Townsend, director of the New York 
Aquarium, tendered a reception followed by a private view of the aquarium; 
Prof. H. Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural 
History, gave a reception and luncheon at the museum. 
The party was met at Fall River, Mass., on September 29 by Mr. Henry C. 
Rowe, president of the Connecticut Oyster Growers’ Association, and taken in 
a steam oyster vessel to his private oyster grounds in Narragansett Bay, where 
there was given a demonstration of oyster dredging, gathering of starfish from 
B. B. F. 1908—s 
