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gamation with other organizations having less than one hundred 

 members, which would exclude the society in question; and, 

 second, it was thought best to inform all of the members of the 

 National Association of Fish Commissioners (formerly the Shell- 

 Fish Commissioners Association) by letter, of the proposed 

 amalgamation and state the idea to them explicitly. In the 

 meantime the American Fisheries Society may well modify its 

 By-laws in such a manner as to permit the amalgamation. 

 The session adjourned. 



Wednesday Evening Session, September 11th. 



The members of the Society were entertained at a clam bake 

 as the guests of the New York Commissioner of Conservation, 

 Mr. Geo. D. Pratt, at his Long Island home, an occasion long to 

 be remembered by those present. At the close of the feast the 

 Society was formally convened for the transaction of remaining 

 business. 



COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS. 



Dr. Henry B. Ward, the chairman, submitted the list of 

 names for Vice-Presidents of Sections and the Society unanimously 

 voted for their acceptance as officers. The list oppears on page 

 108, along with those of other officers of the Society. 



COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS. 



The Committee, through its chairman, Dr. Ward, recom- 

 mended the following changes: 



I. Amending Article III, first paragraph, to read as follows: "On 

 presentation of a formal written petition signed by one hundred or more 

 members, or by vote of the Society together with the written request of the 

 officers thereof, the Executive Committee of the American Fisheries Society 

 may approve the formation in any region of a section of the American Fish- 

 eries Society to be known as the Section." 



II. Amending Article IV, last paragraph, to read: "Vice Presidents 

 of sections may be called upon by the President to present reports of the 

 work of their sections, or they may voluntarily present such reports when 

 material of particular value can be offered by a given division." 



These changes were unanimously approved by vote of the 

 Society. 



