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that every member may be working to carry out the 

 general idea suggested by Dr. Smith, and to advance 

 the interests of the fisherfolk by providing such a 

 nucleus. 



I can only thank you for the kindness shown me, and 

 ask you for your fullest and heartiest co-operation in 

 the work of the coming year, that all the officers may 

 be able with your assistance to advance the Society 

 strongly on the road toward success on which it has 

 already entered. 



President: The chair desires to bring up another 

 matter in regard to publication. Sometimes the papers 

 presented at a meeting have been published by fishery 

 journals in advance of their publication in our Transac- 

 tions. Is this considered desirable by the Society? 



Mr. Nesley, of New York : I believe it is desirable, be- 

 cause it will further instruction along the lines we are 

 all interested in. 



Prof, Dyche, of Kansas : I do not know whether it is 

 quite fair to restrict publication. For example there 

 might be a journal or paper in my own locality in which I 

 would like to publish an abstract. The proceedings of the 

 Society may wait a year, and the usefulness of that 

 article would be impaired if held up for that time. I 

 would like to publish my papers in my own state, for 

 I think they may do some good and my own people pay 

 me for doing this work. 



President: In some respects it would be desirable to 

 publish parts of papers, but it seems to me that the paper 

 as a whole should be referred to the Society; perhaps 

 the majority of the paper might be published by permis- 

 sion of the author. 



Prof. Ward : Should not the decision in regard to such 

 papers be a proper part of the duties of the Publication 

 Committee? It seems to me that in individual cases the 

 decision must necessarily be different. I can hardly 

 think that the Society would approve that all of every one 

 of its papers should appear in a half dozen or more 

 other publications before the Transactions were issued. 



