92 American Fisheries Society 



Tuesday Morning Session, September 10th. 



After various announcements were made, President O'Malley, 

 as Chairman of the Committee to further the amalgamation of 

 the Pacific Fisheries with the American Fisheries Society, pre- 

 sented the following report : 



Two years ago I was appointed chairman of a committee to look into 

 the amalgamation of the Pacific Coast Fisheries Society with the American 

 Fisheries Society. Last year the Pacific Coast Fisheries Society voted to 

 amalgamate with this Society and we proceeded to take it under advisement 

 and work it out, but when we got into the proposition, we found that the 

 By-laws of the American Fisheries Society had defeated our cause, since 

 they stated that we must have 100 members signed from the societies desir- 

 ing to amalgamate. The Pacific Coast organization, I believe, had between 

 seventy and seventy-five members at that time; therefore we can not go 

 any further until action is taken by this society. 



Secretary Titcomb presented the following, relative to the 

 amalgamation of another society with this organization: 



A few months ago, as representative of the Conservation Commission 

 of this State, I attended a meeting of the National Association of Fish Com- 

 missioners. That was originally the Association of Shell Fish Commission- 

 ers, if I remember correctly. The members are more interested in shell fish 

 than anything else. We therefore have this National Association of Fish 

 Commissioners, the International Association of Fish and Game Commis- 

 sioners and the American Fisheries Society, to a large extent working along 

 the same lines — especially the National Association of Fish Commission- 

 ers, so far as the fisheries are concerned — and at that time the question was 

 brought up of amalgamating that association with this one. It is quite a 

 burden on some people to attend and on some states to send representatives to 

 meetings of all these organizations at different seasons of the year, and it is 

 a matter of criticism sometimes, when expenses are incurred by state officials 

 for going out to so many of these meetings. I understand that there is here 

 present a committee from the National Association of Fish Commissioners 

 ready to talk over this question of amalgamating with the American Fish- 

 eries Society, and for that reason I move that the President be empowered 

 to appoint a committee to confer with this committee of the National 

 Association, with a view to amalgamation, and that he himself be included 

 on the committee as an ex-officio member. 



The motion was put and carried, and President O'Malley 

 appointed Messrs. Geo. H. Graham, G. C. Leach and Raymond 

 C. Osburn as members of the Committee. 



The reading and discussion of papers was then resumed: 



