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Publication Committee: Dr. H. M. Smith, Washington, 

 D. 0. : Ward T. Bower, Washington, D. C. ; Miss Ethel M. 

 Smith, Washington, D. C. 



The Secretary then read several communications extend- 

 ing" formal imitation to hold the next annual meeting at 

 Boston, New York, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco. 

 These communications were referred to the Committee on 

 Time and Place of Meeting. 



President : We will proceed with the reading of papers, 

 first hearing from the Program Committee, of which Pro- 

 fessor Dyche is chairman. 



Proeessor Dyciie: The Program Committee has se- 

 lected three numbers for this afternoon; first we will hear 

 Mr. D. B. Fearing's remarks on a proposed index to the So- 

 ciety's Transactions. We will then have the paper entitled : 

 "Is Irrigation Detrimental to Fish Culture," by Mr. W. T. 

 Thompson, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Fairport, Iowa. This 

 will be followed by a paper on the subject: "Utilization of 

 the Dogfish," by Dr. George W. Field, Boston, Mass. These 

 three offerings are selected for the meeting this afternoon. 



President: We will hear from Mr. Fearing first. 



INDEX OF THE TRANSACTIONS 



Mr. Fearing: In the Assistant Secretary's report at 

 the last meeting of this Society he suggested that "in view of 

 the scarcity of the early reports, a card index embracing the 

 history of the connection with the Society of both past and 

 present members would be a most valuable adjunct to the 

 records. The careful compilation of such an index, cover- 

 ing the entire period of the Society's existence, would proba- 

 bly cost from $25.00 to $50.00." This matter of an index 

 was later discussed, bringing out the fact that an author's 

 index had been worked up by Mr. Bower, and this was 

 later published in connection with his article on the History 

 of the Society, which appears in the volume of the Transac- 

 tions of the fortieth meeting- in 1910. 



