Forty-third Annual Meeting 19 



D. L. Belding, — "Conditions Influencing the Growth 

 of Clams {Mya arenaria)." 



Wednesday, September 10, 1913. 



President: I have received a letter from the United 

 States Commissioner of Fisheries containing the offer 

 of a fund of $250 for the use of this Society. If the 

 members of the Society will please do a little thinking 

 about this matter, I will bring it up again for discussion 

 this afternoon, for it is very important. 



We have letters from old members who have been in 

 the Society for many years. Chas. G. Atkins, of Maine, 

 sends his paper and regrets that he will not be able to 

 attend the meeting. Our very dear friend, Professor 

 Forbes, head of the State Laboratory of Natural History 

 in Illinois, also regrets that he is unable to be with us. 



Another letter from the Gloucester Master Mariners' 

 Association on behalf of the Master Mariners, reads as 

 follows : "I tender to you the use of our rooms in Glou- 

 cester. There is plenty of room to hold meetings." It 

 is signed by Mr. Stapleton, Secretary. The Society will 

 probably not have time to go down as a body. 



A letter from the Alaska Packers' Association in San 

 Francisco, suggests that we might invite the larger fish- 

 ery associations of the country to become life members 

 of this Society, and that they are willing to subscribe 

 now. We need more members and a larger income than 

 we get from our two dollar dues, and, if the members 

 of the Society will make it their business to speak to some 

 of the managers of fishery firms, it is quite likely that 

 we can get some very desirable members and consider- 

 able in the way of funds. 



This Society is indebted to Mr. Daniel B. Fearing for 

 a magnificent index to the publications of the American 

 Fisheries Society, covering the first forty volumes of the 

 annual Transactions. This has been prepared very care- 

 fully by Mrs. C. C. Gardner of Newport, under Mr. 



