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Canadian Fisheries Association, which started out with the idea of 

 holding meetings in fishery centres and getting the merchants and the 

 fisherman together. I do not think that they have brought about results 

 in accordance with their expectations ; it is the old story of oil and 

 water not mixing very well. Later the United States Fisheries Associa- 

 tion was started in the United States on the lines of the Canadian 

 Fisheries Association, and both have invited scientific men .to take part 

 in their proceedings. I know that Canadian scientific men have several 

 times taken part in meetings of the Canadian Association. We have 

 given them some scientific material. I think that a committee ought to 

 be formed with a view to holding a conjoint meeting of this Society, of 

 the United States Fisheries Association, and the Canadian Fisheries 

 Association. 



It is important to get the men in the trade to take an interest in 

 the work of the American Fisheries Society. Of course, we in this 

 Society are all doing a great work among the people engaged in the 

 fishing industry, the significance of which we may not fully realize. 

 For instance, the fishermen and fish merchants read the papers that are 

 published by this Society from year to year, and re-publish, for example, 

 in the New York Fishing Gazette, and that is most valuable in spread- 

 ing information. The Canadian Fisherman is another journal which is 

 doing the same thing. But I do think that personal contact is the 

 desirable thing, and I suggest that a committee be appointed to arrange 

 for some kind of joint meetings. I say again that I have been delighted 

 with Professor Osburn's paper ; I am sure that it has been listened to 

 with a great deal of interest by everyone present. 



Mr. W. a. Found, Ottawa, Canada: Mr. President, I have very 

 little to say, but I would not like this opportunity to pass without 

 expressing a word of very real appreciation of the paper that Professor 

 Osburn has read. It struck me that he would be an extremely good man 

 to have as publicity agent for the universities. I am one of those who 

 have been educated in the university to which he made some reference — 

 the university of hard knocks — and I have some appreciation of what is 

 needed from the universities. I have often felt that on this continent, 

 certainly in this country, the university has been too largely regarded as 

 a kind of something apart from practical, everyday life — rather a polish- 

 ing institution for the sons, and latterly the daughters, of those who are 

 blessed with sufficient of this world's wealth to meet the cost of a 

 university education for their children. One of the principal things that 

 the war has taught is that a very close relationship does intrinsically 

 exist between the universities and the practice and business of the world's 

 life. In this country where we have a comparatively small population 

 and a very large area, and where there are so many opportunities from 

 a financial standpoint, the people have possibly been prone to give little 

 thought to the man who is content to study the problems of life. But 

 the time is coming when industry will look to science for the answer to 

 an ever-increasing number of questions; it is realizing more and more 



