92 Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting 



The Chair: i want to say in behalf of one man on that Hst 

 of ofhcers, 1 think the name was meant for Whitaker, akhough 

 it was not read so, that if that is the name, I am prepared to serve 

 this society in any capacity they see fit to ask me to serve them. 

 Of course, the office of Secretary means considerable work, and 

 I will take it with the understanding that I have the co-operation 

 of all the members present, in order that the report may be gotten 

 out in a fairly reasonable time. The proof will be submitted to 

 gentlemen as promptly as it can be got out by the printer. I 

 shall wait for you ten days and if after that time I hear no re- 

 sponse, I shall wait no longer, because the report had better 

 come out in the shape it is than to be left over seven or eight or 

 nine months. So you can be prepared to take your chances if 

 you do not reply in ten days. 



Prof. Birge: I have just had handed to me this morning's 

 Chicago paper in which it is stated that the Natural History 

 Building at Champaign, III, was struck by lightning and dam- 

 aged ten thousand dollars and the collections, chiefly tnose of 

 Professor Forbes have been damaged, to an estimated loss of 

 $50,000. I move you that the Secretary be directed to telegraph 

 expressing our sympathy with Professor Forbes and the loss 

 science has sustained during this accident. 



The motion was seconded and unanimously carried. 



Chair: We will now listen to a paper entided "Advancement 

 in Fish Production," by Mr. W. D. Tomlin, of Duluth. 



