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the oyster beds, ete. The delegates then proceeded to Wickford, R. I., and 
were received by the governor of Rhode Island and the members of the Rhode 
Island Commission of Inland Fisheries on the latter’s houseboat Biophore, 
where luncheon was served. The inspection of the lobster-rearing plant of 
the Rhode Island Commission, the main object of the visit, followed, after 
which the party proceeded to Newport for the night. 
’ On September 30 the United States fisheries steamer Fish Hawk took the 
delegates from Newport to Woods Hole, Mass., where the government marine 
fish hatchery and laboratory were inspected. 
In Boston on October 1 the delegates were the guests of the T Wharf 
Association and the Boston Fish Bureau, being escorted in automobiles to the 
fish wharves, fish-packing establishments, Quincy Market cold storage plant, 
and other points of interest. Hon. Curtis Guild, governor of Massachusetts, 
received and addressed the delegates at the statehouse. A complimentary 
luncheon was tendered by the fish merchants of Boston, and the delegates were 
there welcomed by the mayor of the city. At Harvard University President 
Eliot gave an informal reception and address, and the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology and other buildings were visited. In the evening the party were the 
guests of honor at a banquet provided by the fishery interests of Boston. 
October 2 and 3 were spent in Gloucester, Mass., where a committee of the 
board of trade and the Master Mariners’ Association escorted the visitors to 
the fish wharves, fish-curing and fish-packing plants, and fish-glue works, and 
the marine hatchery of the United States Bureau of Fisheries in Gloucester 
Harbor was inspected. The excursion terminated with a cruise on a mackerel 
schooner and a demonstration of purse-seine fishing, the boats being manned 
and the seine operated by the masters of mackerel vessels. 
