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Mr. Buller: Mr. Chairman, I am pleased that the Com- 

 mittee has decided that the next meeting of the Society will 

 be held in Pennsylvania. I can assure you on the part of 

 Pennsylvania that we will try to maice your stay with us pleas- 

 ant and instructive. It is intended to give you something that 

 is quite unique. This Society has met for fifty years, usually 

 in a hotel; our thought is to have you meet with us in the 

 open, right in the midst of the buffalo and the elk and the 

 hills and the streams, and to live during your week in tents 

 and under army regulations. Provision will also be made for 

 any ladies whom you wish to bring with you. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS 



Prof. E. E. Prince submitted the report of the Committee 

 on Resolutions, as follows : 



Whereas, The American Fisheries Society contains within its mem- 

 bership persons devoted to the preservation and increase of the fish life 

 in the public waters of the United States, this being one of the purposes 

 for which the Society was founded ; and 



Whereas, It is the duty, as it should be the pleasure, of persons 

 in authority to do all within their power to maintain for the proper 

 use and enjoyment of present and future generations the supplies of food 

 and game fishes, especially those in national parks, and other parts of the 

 public domain set aside for the benefit of all the people : 



Therefore be it resolved by the United States members of the Amer- 

 ican Fisheries Society in fiftieth annual meeting assembled. That it is 

 unjust and unwise, for the gain of a few, to permit the commercialization 

 of public areas that have been formed for the recreation and use of all 

 the people, and emphatic protest is specifically made against the prop- 

 osition to convert into an irrigation reservoir a large and attractive sec- 

 tion in the Yellowstone National Park that abounds with beautiful 

 streams suitable for and containing trout, which waters would be for- 

 ever destroyed by the contemplated irrigation project; and be it further 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the National 

 Park Service of the United States and to the members of the appropriate 

 committees of the United States Congress. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the American Fisheries Society be ex- 

 tended to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and the Department 

 of Conservation of the Dominion of Canada; His Worship <the Mayor 

 of Ottawa, and the Board of Trade of Ottawa, for the splendid hos- 

 pitality so freely extended to the members of this Society. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the American Fisheries Society be ex- 



