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ing these back volumes, you will do so. I may say that for 

 the last twenty or twenty-two years you can get every number 

 except those for the year 1903, which, I believe, is out of 

 print. We have no copy of that year's issue for the files of the 

 Society, and if anybody can furnish it, the Society would be 

 glad to have it. The Transactions of this Society contain the 

 whole history of the development of fisheries science and prog- 

 ress during the last fifty years. Very often a single paper in 

 one of these volumes might be worth more to your department 

 than the cost of the entire set. The cost is not very much; no 

 increase in price has ever been made. The volumes sell now 

 just for what they were sold when they were first issued, 

 though some of them are beginning to grow scarce. 



The only other announcement I have to make at this time 

 is that I have turned in my resignation as Executive Secre- 

 tary. 



President Avery announced that at 11 o'clock a group 

 photograph of members present would be taken at the front 

 entrance to the Parliament Building. 



Mr. A. C. Baxter presented motion pictures illustrative of 

 fish and game work in Ohio. 



At 11 a.m., by courtesy of the Ottawa Board of Trade, 

 the members were taken on a motor trip through Ottawa. 

 Following this at 1.15 p.m. a luncheon was given at the 

 Chateau Laurier by the Department of Marine and Fisheries 

 of the Government of Canada, to delegates, guests, and their 

 ladies. After toasts had been proposed and drunk to the King 

 and to the President of the United States, Mr. Alex. Johnston, 

 Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries, who presided, called 

 upon Hon. Honore Mercier, Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 Province of Quebec, to address the gathering.* 



Following the remarks of Hon. Mr. Mercier, Mr. Johnston 

 called on Mr. Avery, President of the Society. 



*The Hon. Mr. Mercier's address on the subject "Forest Protection and its 

 Effect on Fish and Game Life" appears in full along with other papers in this 

 volume. 



