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absence of the Secretary the Chair rejected entirely one 

 paper that was submitted without signature and another 

 that was merely a State list of fishes, but was manifestly 

 incomplete and without annotations. Perhaps the Act- 

 ing Recording Secretary and the Chair assumed too 

 much authority, but that is what happened. 



Mr. Bower: Authority should be given to cut down 

 discussion. 



President: The phrase "with power" includes that. 



Mr. Lydell : They would have power to cut out entire- 

 ly any papers submitted for publication? 



President: That would be power to use their best 

 judgment to make the publication of the Society as cred- 

 itable as possible. The motion before the house is: 



That the Recording Secretary and Publication Com- 

 mittee be given full power to deal with papers submitted 

 for publication by the Society. 



Adopted by the Society. 



President: I am glad the Society has taken this ac- 

 tion, because this work has thrown a weight of responsi- 

 bility on the Recording Secretary which he was loth to 

 accept. Hitherto he has had to use his own discretion 

 or crowd in what was not always acceptable, as the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee were not generally accessible. 



Will the Committee on Time and Place of Meeting 

 please report. 



time and place of meeting. 



Mr. Woods, of Missouri : Mr. Chairman, the names of 

 cities presented for the consideration of your committee 

 were Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans and Indianapolis. 

 The committee has unanimously selected New Orleans, 

 and has decided upon September 30 and October 1, 2 

 and 3, 1914, as the proper time for holding the meeting. 



Moved and carried that the report of the Committee 

 be adopted. 



Mr. Dayries, of New Orleans: I wish to thank the 

 Society most cordially for having selected New Orleans 

 for the next meeting place, and to say that it will be 



