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preferably in Quebec, I am sure that there will be a very hearty 

 response from the United States members of the Society. In 

 the meanwhile, may we not hope for a very generous visita- 

 tion from Canada at the meetings of the Society which are 

 to be held in the United States? "Hands across the sea" is 

 a very pleasing sentiment, but here in North America a more 

 intimate association is desirable and physically possible. May 

 not we who are interested in fisheries do our share to promote 

 international comity and encourage the passage across the 

 border, not figuratively of hands, but actually of feet and 

 of the whole corporeal frame? 



This concluded the proceedings of the luncheon. 



Afternoon Session, September 22, ig20 



The meeting was called to order by President Avery. 



Mr. Arthur L. Millett read a paper entitled "Adequate 

 Fish Inspection : A Means to Better Fish for the Consumer 

 and to Increased Fish Food Consumption." Discussion fol- 

 lowed. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AWARDS 



Preliminary to presenting the report of the Committee on 

 Awards, Mr. John W. Titcomb, Chairman, said that as the 

 conditions of award had not been published during the past 

 year, the Committee reverted to the original conditions. Mr, 

 Titcomb read these conditions as printed in the Transactions 

 for June, 1918, pages 112 and 113. 



A prize of $100 was awarded to Dr. William C. Kendall 

 for his paper on "Some Previously Unrecognized Ana- 

 tomical Facts and Their Relation to Fish-Cultural Practices." 



The formal report of the Committee was as follows : 



The paper by Dr. Marie V. Labour has been , eliminated from 

 consideration. Her letter does not state that it is offered for competi- 

 tion ; rather that it is sent as a contribution to the program of the jubilee 

 meeting. Furthermore it does not comply in that it is an abstract or 

 summary and not the full contribution. Still more significant is the fact 

 that Miss Lebour is not a member of the Society and so under the 



