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to distribute its rather expensive volume to members 

 who are in arrears, and the volume can be edited in a 

 manner which will make it less expensive. 



I have to announce the arrival of the Mayor. Gentle- 

 men, we have with us this morning another distinguished 

 visitor, Hon. J. F. Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, who 

 wishes to extend a word of welcome. 



Mayor Fitzgerald gave the Society a cordial welcome 

 to the city and made some interesting remarks on the 

 increase in price of fishery products in Boston since his 

 boyhood. The suggestion was made that ocean liners 

 equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus might be en- 

 couraged to aid the work of the fishermen by reporting 

 the location of schools of mackerel they chance to pass 

 through. The Mayor further recounted some of his ex- 

 periences while a member of Congress in the attempt to 

 secure the passage of legislation for the protection of 

 the lobster, and stated that the best means of securing 

 the passage of any measure consists of personal solicita- 

 tion of members of Congress while supplying them at the 

 same time with definite information as to the value of 

 such legislation. 



President Townsend presented the thanks of the So- 

 ciety to Mayor Fitzgerald for his address. Mr. Daniel 

 B. Fearing was then called upon to give the report of 

 the Executive Committee. 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Fearing : During the year, at the approval of the 

 Executive Committee, as Chairman, I sent out a request 

 for funds from the Society to aid the Treasurer. I sent at 

 my own personal expense more than six hundred com- 

 munications, enclosing a stamped envelope addressed to 

 Ward T. Bower, Secretary, and a printed postal card, 

 which only had to be filled in and sent. To these com- 

 munications that I sent out, there were eighteen members 

 that were good enough to answer; but, out of the eigh- 

 teen members that answered, I got eight life member- 



