20 Tzcciify-si.vtii Annual Meeting 



The motion was duly seconded and the report was unani- 

 mously adopted. 



Chairman Whitaker: Since the close of yesterday's meet- 

 ing the report of the Secretary has come to liand, and the Secre- 

 tary pro tern will read it. 



The report was then read as follows: 



^ Glens Ivills, N. Y., June 14, 1897. 

 American Fisheries Society: 



Gentlemen — I have the honor to present a brief statement of 

 my tluties as Recording Secretary of this Society. 



Two years ago a resolution was passed by the Society pro- 

 viding that the transactions should be printed within sixty days 

 after the Annual Meeting, and last year for reasons -given bv 

 Dr. Bean in his report it was impossible to comply with the 

 resolution. Upon adjournment of the Society last year I sought 

 bids for printing the transactions and received two of $1.35 and 

 $1.34 per page, both New York printers, in which place former 

 transactions have been printed. Later, the first quoted bidder 

 reduced his bid to $1.20 per page. It was not until the latter 

 part of October that the Treasurer was able to furnish the list 

 of members, etc., and a week later he sent in some corrections. 

 I kncnv, from my own duties allied to that of preparing a mem- 

 bership .list, how difficult it is to impress upon members the 

 necessity for haste in the matter, and the Treasurer informs me 

 that he used all diligence in correcting the list of members. In 

 the meantime I had sought bids outside of New York City for 

 printing the transactions, and received from tlie Glens Falls 

 Printing Company a bid of 84 cents per page, which I accepted. 

 The stenographic notes were sent to me in such a form, with 

 so many blanks to fill, that it was the work of a number of days 

 to prepare them for the printer, and even then I regret to say 

 errors occurred. It was my idea that the proof sheets of the 

 papers read should be submitted to the writers for cor- 

 rection; but, through a misimderstanding of my letter on that 

 subject to the President, it was not done. The printed transac- 

 tions were received the evening of IMarch 4, and the same even- 

 ing I mailed copies to all active members, and on March 5, 

 mailed the remainder to honorary and corresponding members. 



■ I have had a great many applications from those who are 

 not members for copies of the transactions, and these I have 

 filled so far as I could. Dr. Bean turned over to me a consid- 



