PROCEEDINGS 



of the 



Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting 



of the 



American Fisheries Society 



ST. PAUL, MINN., 



August 29, 30 and 31, 1917 



Opening Session*, Afternoon, August 29th. 



The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. George 

 W. Field, who presided throughout the sessions. 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 



Mr. Carlos Avery, of St. Paul, Minn., Recording Secretary, 

 submitted as his report the Proceedings of the Forty-sixth Annual 

 Meeting held at New Orleans, La., as published in the June, 1917, 

 number of the Transactions. 



It was moved and carried that the report be accepted. 



REPORT OF THE TREASURER. 



The report was read by Secretary Avery, who prefaced the 

 reading by the statement that, following the death of Mr. Chas. 

 W. Willard, who had acted as Treasurer since 1900, Miss L. B. 

 Rimbach, of Medford Hillside, Mass., was made Acting Treasurer. 

 Miss Rimbach 's report covers the period from the annual meeting 

 of 1916 to August 11, 1917, and is as follows: 



* On the morning of the twenty-ninth the Society met with the National 

 Association of Fish and Game Commissioners, at which time addresses of 

 welcome were presented by the Governor of Minnesota and the Mayor 

 of St. Paul. 



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