Forty-second Annual Meeting 19 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY 



To the Officers and Members of the American Fisheries Society: 



The major part of the Secretary's work since the last meeting of 

 the Society has been the publications of the Transactions. It may have 

 seemed to members that the interval of several months following the 

 St. Louis meeting before the appearance of the volume was unduly 

 long, but it is to be remembered that the editing and arranging of 

 material amounting to 350 printed pages is no slight task. The proof 

 reading and correspondence with authors, not to mention unforeseen 

 delays in the printing, add to the Secretary's duties and still further 

 postpone the issue of the Transactions. 



The volume for 1911 contains 22 papers, with 3 illustrations, and the 

 usual business proceedings, the list of members, and other standing or 

 routine matter. Competitive bids for the printing were solicited, and 

 the contract was let to the W. F. Roberts Company, of Washington, 

 D. C. The cost of publishing the edition of 750 copies was $908.21. 

 Dr. H. M. Smith, as chairman of the Publication Committee, was in 

 general charge of the work, which was attended to directly by the 

 Secretary and Assistant Secretary, who are the other two members of 

 the Committee. 



It will be recalled that the 1910 report was subject to some criti- 

 cism for certain blank pages which were considered by some of the 

 members to be unnecessary. It seemed to be agreed, however, that 

 the issue of papers separately was desirable, in certain cases, at all 

 events. To arrange for this it is necessary to have each paper begin 

 on a new odd page, and some blank pages inevitably result. There are 

 a total of 14 such blank pages in the 1911 report, but the printer made 

 a reduced rate on them. 



Sales of reports during the year have amounted to $37.70. The 

 Fortieth Anniversary volume (1910) has been sold at $2.00 per copy, the 

 other issues at $1.00, as decided upon by the Society at the St. Louis 

 meeting. Sales would have been larger but for the scarcity of many 

 issues. Several inquiries have come from libraries which desired to 

 obtain a full set of the Transactions. 



The number of reports now in the hands of the Secretary, by years, 

 is as follows : 



1876 1 1902 6 



1888 1 1903 2 



1894 1 1904 67 



1895 2 1905 2 



1896 2 1906 103 



1897 2 1907 97 



1898 2 1908 122 



1899 3 1909 101 



1900 4 1910 119 



1901 4 1911 89 



