This ambiguity and confusion of the names of fishes has, I have no 

 doubt, impressed all of us with its inconvenience and objectionable- 

 ness. 1 have no measures to recommend to the Association to obviate 

 it; for I suppose it is too extended an evil, and too deeply rooted, to 

 be reached by us ; but I think it is deserving the attention of the 

 association, and would suggest that a partial remedy might be found 

 in occasionally collating the various names of each fish in dift'erent 

 localities, and publishing them in connection with the Latin or scien- 

 tific names of the fish, with, perhaps, some description of it added. 



Notice of Second Annual Meeting. 



During the month of December I caused to be printed a notice 

 of the present meeting, and, in the absence of any committee for the 

 purpose, I stretched a point, perhaps, in my authority, in preparing a 

 stated programme of exercises for the meeting. This was in order 

 to bring before your notice the objects which seem most to need your 

 attention. 



This notification circular was sent to all professional and amateur 

 fish culturists whose names were in my possession, and tlie fisheries' 

 commissioners of the various States, and was generallv noticed in 

 the newspapers and agricultural periodicals. 



In conlusion, I will merely add that, in the course of the year, I 

 have mailed 500 letters on business of the association, and nearly a 

 thousand circulars and papers. 



Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the American Fish 

 Culturists' Association, held at Albany, February 7th and 

 8th, 1872. 



The association came together at the Globe Hotel, Albany, N. Y., 

 at twelve o'clock, m., on Wednesday, February 7, 1872. 



The following members were admitted : E. W. Stoughton, Wind- 

 sor, Yt. ; George Shepard Page, New York ; Richards Bradley, 

 Brattleboro', Yt. ; George H. Jerome, Niles, Mich. ; A. B. Crockel, 

 Norway, Maine; Edward Whitin, Whitinsville, Mass.; Theodore 

 Shultz, New York ; T. J. Whitcomb, Springfield, Yt. ; J. D. Bridge- 

 man, Bellows Falls, Yt. ; Benjamin Farrar, St. Louis, Mo. ; George 

 Jewett, M. D., Fitcliburg, Mass. ; B. Frank Boyer, Reading, Pa. ; 

 A. C. Rupe, New York; A. B. Sprout, Muncy, Pa. ; B. B. Porter, 

 Baltimore, Md. ; M. H. Christler. Kinderhook, N. Y. ; Gifibrd W. 

 Christler, Kinderhook, N. Y. ; E. Stirling, M. D., Cleveland, Ohio ; 

 F. J. Chandler, Alstead, N. II. 



