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ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The Committee on Nominations reported the following 

 as the officers of the Association for the ensuing year : 



President— -R. B. Roosevelt. 

 Vice-President — George Sheppard Page. 

 Treasurer — Eugene G. Blackford. 

 Secretary — Barnet Phillips. 



Executive Committee — H. J. Reeder, Frederick Mather, 

 Alexander Witcher, Seth Green. 



The above officers were accordingly elected. 



CALIFORNIA SALMON. 



Mr. Livingston Stone said : 



Before saying anything with regard to the California salmon, 

 I would say, with regard to the shad which Mr. Milner men- 

 tioned as having been sent to California, that there is no doubt 

 that some of them have been caught there fully grown. I have 

 seen two of them myself, preserved in alcohol, and there is no 

 question about it that they are the shad of the Eastern States. 

 Besides those two there are a great many more, and I have no 

 doubt that hundreds of shad have been caught in California of 

 which we have heard nothing. 



With regard to the California salmon we are gaining a little 

 every year and getting things upon a better basis. When I 

 first went out there, in 1872, I succeeded in sending East 30,000 

 eggs. Year before last we took there nearly 9,000,000. In all, 

 we have taken about 25,000,000 eggs from California salmon ; 

 most of which have been sent East, but a part of which we 

 have returned to the head-waters of the Sacramento. Those 

 25,000,000 salmon have cost one dollar a thousand, in gold, up 



