42 American Fisheries Society 



EDITORIAL. 



Prizes for Special Contributions. For the past two years the 

 Society has offered prizes for contributions of special merit. At 

 the last annual meeting a prize of $100 was awarded to Mr. Lewis 

 Radcliffe, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, for his paper 

 on "Fishery Products Laboratories Afford the Greatest Promise 

 of Relief of Unsolved Problems Affecting Commercial Fisheries." 

 Mr. Radcliffe's paper appears as the leading article in this number 

 of the Transactions. 



It is the intention of the Society to continue the offer of prizes 

 for the present year under three heads, as formerly: 



1. For the contribution showing the greatest advance in 



practical fish cultural work. 



2. For the best contribution to biological work connected with 



fish problems in general. 



3. For that which offers the greatest promise of the solution 



of problems affecting commercial fisheries work. 



It is expressly stipulated that the papers offered in competition 

 for prizes shall be in the hands of the Secretary at least one month 

 in advance of the date of the annual meeting of the Society, in 

 order that the Committee on Awards may have time for careful 

 consideration of the papers. This means that such contributions 

 in 1920 should be submitted before August 20th. 



Papers previously published, or those intended for publication 

 elsewhere than in the Transactions are not admitted to compe- 

 tition and the Society reserves the right to reject all the papers in 

 any class if none of them is considered of sufficient importance to 

 merit the award. 



