Proceedings Forty-ninth Annual Meeting 55 



Wednesday Evening Session, October 8th, 1919. 



A very enjoyable banquet was tendered the members and 

 lady guests of the Society by the Kentucky Game and Fish 

 Commission in the rooms of the Pendennis Club. 



Following a thoroughly good dinner, the toastmaster, Mr. John 

 P. Woods, called upon various members, among them, President 

 Alexander and Messrs Carlos Avery, John H. Wallace, Jr., 

 Raymond C. Osburn, J. Q. Ward, E. E. Prince, J. A. Williams, 

 Gro. H. Graham and W. H. Killian. 



Thursday Morning Session, October 9th, 1919. 



READING OF PAPERS. 



Water Pollution. 



A paper prepared by the Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Commission and presented by Mr. David L. Belding, Biologist 

 of the Commission. 



Mr. Belding stated what has been accomplished in Massa- 

 chusetts and outlined the work to be attempted in the near 

 future. The plans contain a thorough educational program on 

 pollution and its effects to acquaint the people of the state with 

 this abuse of public waters. 



Report on the Shad Situation. 



By Mr. G. C. Leach, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Extensive 

 propagation was advocated as the only means of preventing the 

 extinction of the shad as a commercial fish and of restoring it 

 to its proper importance in our food supply. 



After extended discussion, it was moved and carried that a 

 special committee be appointed, consisting of representatives of 

 coastal states and provinces and of the commercial interests, to 

 whom this matter should be referred for consideration. 



