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experience that when you get the kindred trades interested in a 

 society, as associate members, they always attend the meetings 

 because they meet the people who are helpful to them in their 

 business and they do a larger amount of advertising to the Society 

 throughout the year. I wish heartily to endorse that idea and 

 to second it. 



Mr. A. L. Millett, of Massachusetts: It seems to me, 

 before we go into the discussion, that we should hear from the 

 man who has been our Editor for many years. I refer to Dr. 

 Osburn. 



Dr. R. C. Osburn: I did not mean to discuss this matter at 

 all. I came here expecting to resign from office because I felt 

 that, with the duties necessary to my university, I could not afford 

 the time. I have given my time in the past because I felt it 

 was my duty to the Society to do so. I fully intended to resign 

 last year. I went to New York and found so many of our men 

 engaged in war work of various kinds that I said to myself, " I will 

 serve another year, anyway, and will make it my contribution to 

 furthering the work of our fisheries. " 



Gentlemen, we must have more money if we are going to pub- 

 lish as we should. We are out of debt, to be sure, and have 

 produced, I think, a very creditable journal. Our publishing bill 

 for the past year will be approximately $700. If we are to publish 

 all the valuable papers presented at this meeting the bill will be 

 considerably more. I had to reject a number of papers last year 

 for lack of funds. We will just about come out even this year 

 after the bills are paid. We must have, then, more funds in order 

 to carry on this work properly. 



As to the name of the proposed office, if I may make a sug- 

 gestion, the term "Permanent Secretary" rather appeals to me. 

 It is used by other societies, such as the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, the largest scientific body in our 

 country and one of the most thriving. 



I am not financially interested in the matter, for the amount 

 of the salary suggested I consider merely an honorarium. You 

 could not hire me to do it for anything like that amount. In 

 the past years I have accepted the burden because of my interest 

 in the work. 



