EDITORIAL. 



The Next Annual Meeting. The Forty-eighth Annual Meeting 

 of the American Fisheries Society will be held in the State of 

 New York on September 9, 10 and 11, 1918. The exact place 

 of meeting has not yet been determined but will be announced 

 later. There has been considerable discussion in the various 

 scientific societies as to the propriety of holding meetings under 

 present conditions of travel and railway congestion. While it 

 may be advisable for certain societies to forego their meetings, it 

 seems to the writer that there never has been a time in the history 

 of this Society when a full attendance at the regular meeting was 

 more desirable. A very large percentage of our membership 

 consists of men who are interested in the practical and economic 

 phases of fisheries work; and conservation, greater utilization 

 of fish, especially the cheaper kinds, the increased use of 

 by-products, greater production, improved methods of marketing, 

 etc., are matters which concern the welfare of the whole nation, 

 now and in the future. Keep the date of the meeting in mind 

 and be fully prepared for the discussion of these and other 

 important problems of wide application. 



Fresh-water Biology. By Ward and Whipple.— A Review. 



The members of the American Fisheries Society will all be 

 interested to learn that a most important publication bearing the 

 above title has just made its appearance from the press of John 

 Wiley and Sons, New York. The responsible authors, Dr. Henry 

 Baldwin Ward, Professor of Zoology in the University of Illinois 

 and Dr. Geo. Henry Whipple, Professor of Sanitary Engineering 

 in Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 have been aided by a staff of twenty-five specialists in the various 

 groups of fresh water organisms. The amount of material 

 embraced in the volume of over eleven hundred pages is stu- 

 pendous, and only the enlistment of a large corps of able specialists 

 could ensure such satisfactory and authoritative results. 



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