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and one or two more will be at the hotel to show the way. 

 We will leave the hotel here at quarter of two. 



Recess was taken until 2.00 p.m., to meet on the 

 steamer Illinois at that time. 



The President called the meeting' to order at 3 o'clock 

 p.m.. same day, on board the steamer Illinois. 



Secretary: The Anhaeuser-Busch Brewing Company 

 extends a cordial invitation to us to inspect their plant at 

 our convenience, but preferably before 4.00 p.m. It is asked 

 that we inform them of the time selected that they ma)- give 

 the Society hospitable attention. 



Professor Dyche: I move that this invitation be ac- 

 cepted. Being from Kansas I think it is proper for me to 

 make the motion. (Laughter. ) 



President: Will the Professor set the time? 



Treasurer: I suggest that the time be from 4.00 p.m. 

 to 8.00 a.m. (Laughter.) 



The invitation was then unanimously accepted. 



Dr. Barteett : I want to say that the Anhaeuser-Busch 

 brewery is one of the most interesting manufacturing plants 

 in the West, and it covers the largest area of ground. 1 have 

 no doubt your reception will be all that you can ask for, 

 over and above what yon want to drink. 



President : Will you state a time so that we may n< >l i I \ 

 the company when we will be there ? 



Secretary: Is it not probable that our business will be 

 finished by 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon ? 



President : Yes. 



Secretary: Then I move that we go out immediately 

 after adjournment tomorrow. 



Motion seconded and unanimously carried. 



Secretarv: A communication is at hand from Air. 

 Charles Flegel, member of the Imperial Fisheries Society, 

 Vienna, Austria, and a corresponding member of the 

 American Fisheries Society. It is in relation to the sponge 

 fishery of the Mediterranean. It is quite a long communica- 



