16 Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting 



The Chair: I will appoint as auditing committee Mr. 

 Peabody, Mr. W. H. Davis and Mr. F. N. Clark. 



I desire to propose the name of Senator J. L. Preston, of 

 Lapeer, Micliigan, as a member of this Society, and the name 

 will be referred to the committee without further order and they 

 will report at once. 



The membership committee, after a brief session, reported 

 unanimously in favor of the election of Mr. Preston and he was 

 duly elected a member of the Association. 



The Chair: I want to say a word in connection with the 

 Treasurer's report. I am satisfied it has been a great disappoint- 

 ment to him not to be present. He is a devoted member of the 

 Society, and I have had long enough experience with the Society 

 to know that he has made a most efificient Treasurer. He has 

 looked after the dues, he has been very careful, and his report 

 shows we are in very fair financial condition, and it is largely 

 owing to his efiforts that it is so. I regret as much as he does 

 that he is not here. 



The name of William Osborn, of Duluth, Minnesota, was 

 proposed by Mr. Tonilin as a member of the Society. 



The committee on membership reported in favor of Mr. Os- 

 born, and he was duly elected. 



Mr. Gunckel: I desire to say a few words on the subject of 

 which a connnittee has been appointed. I had a conference with 

 Mr. Huntington before I left New York last year, and since then 

 I have had correspondence witli President McKinley and have 

 had a conversation with him touching the subject, and he most 

 heartily endorses anything this Society may recommend touch- 

 ing the protection of fish not only upon the Atlantic and Pacific 

 coasts, but in all the inland lakes, and he assured me he would 

 give it liis personal attention. I presume after the Dingley bill 

 has passed he will do so. 



The Chair: I desire to say a few words with reference to the 

 printed proceedings of last year. The stenographer's report was, 

 to say the least, a very poor one, and more care should be taken 

 in the editing of the report. I myself opposed the return of the 

 papers to authors after they were once in the hands of the Secre- 

 tary, and made a motion by which the Secretary was authorized 

 to retain in his possession such papers as were read at the meet- 

 ing. The reason for that was that if the papers were returned 

 to the writers, through the multiplicity of their own affairs they 



