Centennial Meeting. 



Centennial Grounds, Philadelphia, 



Friday, October 6th, 1876. 



A special session of the American Fish Culturists' Associa- 

 tion was held in Judges' Hall, Centennial Exhibition Grounds. 

 Among those present participating in the meeting were the 

 following persons: 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird, U. S. Fish Commissioner; Robert 

 B. Roosevelt, President of American Fish Culturists' Associa- 

 tion; M. E. Edmunds, Weston, Vt.; T. B. Ferguson, Baltimore 

 Md. ; A. A. Anderson, Bloomsbury, N. J.; Seth Green, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; Fred. Mather, Honeoye Falls, N. Y.; H. H. 

 Thomas, Randolph, N. Y.; T. C. Banks, New York; J. D. 

 Bremer, Pennsylvania; A. Bell Malcolmsen, Jr., New York; 

 Livingston Stone, California; E. G. Blackford, New York; 

 William Goldsmith, Vermont; Sekizawa Alkelkio, Imperial 

 Japanese Commissioner. 



Hon. R. B. Roosevelt, President of the Association, delivered 

 the opening address. 



Gentlemen : Some fifteen or more years ago I wrote a book 

 upon the Sporting Fishes of North America, and in it devoted 

 some attention to the matter of fish culture. At that time but 

 little was known upon the subject, the investigations of Gehin 

 and Reiny had but lately been given to the world. Ainsworth 

 was not known to the public, and Seth Green, although working 

 away on his own account, had yet made no sign. The only 

 American work on the subject was the pamphlet of Dr. Garlick. 



