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The following resolution was offered by Mr. Her- 

 schel Whitaker and, on motion, was adopted. 



Resolved, That the American Fisheries Society 

 desires to congratulate the Board of Parks of the City 

 of New York upon the establishment of a free public 

 Aquarium at Castle Garden. The installation of such 

 an Aquarium reflects credit upon the city which has 

 promoted it, and will serve to entertain the people with 

 a continuous and pleasing exhibit of the common and 

 rare forms of the fauna and flora of her waters, and 

 the student will be afforded an opportunity for scientific 

 observation furnished nowhere else in America. 



We further desire to congratulate the Board in se- 

 curino- the services of Dr. Tarleton H. Bean as 

 Director, who brings to this particular w^ork such ripe 

 experience and broad information as to insure the 

 success of the enterprise, 



Mr. Mather then said that recently he saw in the 

 Fishing Gazette that Mr. Samuel Wilmot, with whom 

 he had been acquainted for many years, had been 

 retired on half pay as a reward for faithful and continu- 

 ous service. Mr. Mather suggested that, as this was 

 commonly done in Canada and Great Britain, it might 

 be appropriate for the Fisheries Society to recommend 

 that some sort of custom of this kind be resorted to in 

 this country as a reward for long and faithful service. 



On motion, the Society adjourned. 



Edward P. Doyle, 



Secretary. 



