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over that area. Some of the difficulties and possibilities of legis- 

 lation along these lines were suggested in order to acquaint the 

 Society with the work with which the committee is engaged and 

 on which it intends to report later. 



COMMITTEE ON AMALGAMATION OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES 

 SOCIETY AND THE PACIFIC COAST FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



Mr. Henry O'Malley, Chairman, reminded the Society that 

 his committee was appointed at the San Francisco meeting in 1915 

 to consider the amalgamation of these societies and that the 

 By-laws of the American Fisheries Society were changed at the 

 time to provide for branches. He reported that the Chairman of 

 the Executive Committee of the Pacific Coast Fisheries Society 

 informed him that at their meeting, held in July, 1917, it was 

 unanimously voted to join hands with the American Fisheries 

 Society. He further stated that all that remains to be done is to 

 get in touch with the proper officers of the Pacific Coast Society 

 and the amalgamation may be properly concluded at the next 

 annual meeting, and suggested that a committee be appointed to 

 take charge of the matter. 



Mr. John P. Woods moved that the present committee be 

 continued to complete the arrangements and the motion was 

 unanimously carried. 



REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Geo. H. Graham, Chairman, reported that the Auditing 

 Committee had examined the Treasurer's account and found it to 

 be correct and accompanied by the proper vouchers. 



A motion that the report be adopted was put and carried. 



Discussion of Mr. TitcomVs Paper. 



The address presented by Mr. John W. Titcomb on the pre- 

 vious day was then taken up for discussion. (See Transactions, 

 December, 1917, pp. 11-21, where this paper appears in full), and 

 Mr. Titcomb first gave a resume of the paper. 



Mr. Wm. E. Barber, of Wisconsin, stated that as an emergency 

 measure the Wisconsin Commission in 1917 was ordered to over- 

 see the distribution of rough fish within the state boundaries. 



