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such station of information, as mentioned by Professor Reighard 

 and Professor Birge. I recognize its importance, and it does 

 me great pleasure to confirm the statement of Mr. Clark, that 

 the United States Fish Commission has sent out Professor Wy- 

 mans, of our Duluth high school, the past two seasons to pursue 

 just such researches as these. 



The committee on place of next meeting then reported as 

 follows : 



JNIr. Davis: The conuuittee appointed by you to select and 

 recommend a location for the next meeting unanimously recom- 

 mend the City of Omaha. 



On motion the report was adopted unanimously. 



The Chairman : It is now in order to fix the time when the 

 meeting shall be held. There is some force in what has been 

 said about fixing a time, as nearl\- as we can, that will he a little 

 further away from the college commencements, so that we can 

 have the scientific workers with us. 



Mr. Dickerson: I would suggest some time in the month 

 of May. 



Chairman Whitaker: Of course we should consult Mr. May 

 somewhat in reference to this mat-ter. There is another thing 

 we want to look out for, and that is to put it far enough away 

 from the season of fish distribution so we may be able to get the 

 superintendents to attend. 



]\Ir. Mav: The main reason for my asking the society to 

 hold its meeting in ( )maha next year is on account of our Trans- 

 Mississippi International Expc^sition, which opens June ist. 

 We want the members of the society to be there after the expo- 

 sition opens, on account of the exhibit we expect to make 

 there, in the way of live fish, fish products, iiuplements of fishing, 

 etc. We want to make it on as broad a scale as we can possibly 

 make it. While we don't expect to equal the exhibition at Chi- 

 cago, we want to make it of as great magnitude as we can. as 

 broad as possible. Since you have named Omaha for holding 

 the meeting of '98 I beg of you to fix a date after the first of 

 June, when the exposition will be in full operation. Our expo- 

 sition runs until November, so any time during that period will 

 be satisfactory to us. 



Air. Dale: I move that it be made the last week in June. 



