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8. The committee will determine the competitors who are entitled to awards, and 
the decisions of the committee will be final. 
g. The committee may call before it, in order to obtain additional information when 
desirable, persons who may have entered the competition and also other persons. 
10. The committee may, at its discretion, withhold the award in any case if in its 
judgment no sufficiently worthy competition is presented; and it may divide an award 
if there are two competitions that it deems of equal merit. 
11. The committee will make its report to the congress not later than the day pre- 
ceding final adjournment. 
12. The awards will be announced at a session of the congress, and each award will 
be accompanied by a special certificate or diploma suitably inscribed and bearing the 
signatures of the officers of the congress. 
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AWARDS. 
At the opening session of the congress, the president appointed an international 
committee on awards, consisting of eighteen members who were not competitors. The 
committee, divided into five subcommittees to deal with the various groups of awards, 
consisted of the following, of whom Dr. E. A. Birge was chosen as general chairman: 
For prizes numbered 3, 7, and 8—Dr. Oscar Nordqvist, chairman; Dr. Theo. S. 
Palmer, Maj. Richard Sylvester, Dr. Barton W. Evermann, Dr. W. S. Harban. 
For prizes numbered 1, 5, 6, 11, 14, and 15—Dr. Decio Vinciguerra, chairman; 
Dr. E. A. Birge, Dr. F. B. Sumner, Dr. T. Kitahara. 
For prize numbered 17—Dr. H. von Kadich, chairman; Dr. Henry B. Ward, 
Dr. Robert E. Coker. 
For prizes numbered 9, 10, 12, 13, and 16—Dr. P. C. C. Hoek, chairman, Mr. W. E. 
Meehan, Mr. J. W. Titcomb. 
For prizes numbered 2, 4, and 18—Dr. Gregoire Antipa, chairman; Dr. S. E. Meek, 
Dr. F. W. True. 
THE AWARDS CONFERRED. 
About 50 papers and exhibits were submitted in competition, many of which were 
of high value and embodied the results of painstaking research and experiment. The 
committee adopted the following rules for their guidance: 
1. No prize shall be awarded except for a paper of exceptional value. Such paper 
should contain the results of an unusually thorough and complete investigation, or 
should announce an important new discovery or method. 
2. It is not expedient to award less than a full prize to a single paper, although, 
following the general rules, a prize may be divided between papers of equal merit. 
3. In case no award of a prize be given, the committee recommend that the donor 
be requested to allow the prize to remain open for competition at the next International 
Fishery Congress. 
The committee reported their findings on September 25, and unanimously made 
the following awards: 
No. 2: To Mr. Dwight Franklin, New York City. 
No. 4: To Mr. Frederic A. Lucas, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences, New York City, and Mr. Roy W. Miner, American Museum of Natural History, 
New York City (division of prize). 
No. 7: To Mr. Charles H. Stevenson, U. 5. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 
No. 9: To Dr. A. D. Mead, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
No. 10: To Mr. Paul Reighard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
No. 11: To Dr. Henry F. Moore, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 
No. 13: To Dr. A. D. Mead, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 
No. 14: To Dr. Henry F. Moore, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 
