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ization we will carry this Society to a higher degree, if possible, 

 throughout the administration of the next year. 



"At no time in the history of the Society has there been more 

 important work for us to perform. The needs of the government 

 at this time are great indeed, and it is our duty and our obligation 

 to offer to our government at this time our heartiest co-operation 

 and support in carrying out any measures suggested for the 

 production of more sea-foods and fish-foods, so that the govern- 

 ment will have the greatest utilization possible of the meats which 

 are so necessary for our armies and those of our allies. Therefore, 

 I call upon every member of this Society and every state com- 

 missioner belonging to it, to give to the government his best 

 support in the production of more fish for food and in the educa- 

 tion of the people in the eating of fish. Further than that, f 

 believe it is our duty to see that fish food is supplied to the people of 

 the United States at a price at which they can afford to purchase 

 it and not be forced to eat meat. 



"We should take up with great vigor this question of the pol- 

 lution of streams which has been considered with such seriousness 

 at this meeting and do everything possible to back up any move- 

 ment to eradicate this great evil that exists throughout the whole 

 land, so that our streams will supply the requisite amount of fish 

 food. 



"We should take up our work along constructive lines, so that 

 this Society will stand for something that makes for the real good 

 and the larger development of the great resources of this nation." 



A motion was passed instructing the Secretary of the Society 

 to extend the thanks of the Society to the New York Zoological 

 Society for the previous evening's entertainment at the New 

 York Aquarium. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON AMALGAMATION OF THE NATIONAL 



ASSOCIATION OF FISH COMMISSIONERS WITH THE 



AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



The chairman, Mr. Geo. H. Graham, stated that the Com- 

 mittee had met, and, after much discussion of the matter, decided 

 to request that the matter be laid over until the next annual 

 meeting. The reasons for this delay are, that the By-laws of the 

 American Fisheries Society do not at present permit of the amal- 



