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Committee on time and place of next meeting : J. E. Gunc- 

 kel, Ct. M. Brown and W. H. Boardnian. 



Committee on resolutions: General E. E. Bryant, Charles 

 H. Townsend and S. W. Downing. 



Report of treasurer referred to auditing committee. 



The President : The con) mittees will report tomorrow 

 morning. 



You will remember that there was a memorial committee 

 appointed to consider the plan of erecting a memorial to Profes- 

 sor Baird, and the chairman of that committee being unavoid- 

 ably absent has submitted his report and I will request Mr. Clark 

 to read it. 



j\Ir. Clark then read the following: 



REPORT or BAIRD MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. 



Woods Hole, Mass., July 13, 1901. 

 To the President, 



American Fisheries Society, 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



Sir : — As chairman of the Baird memorial committee 

 appointed at the last meeting of the society, I have the honor to 

 make the following brief report : 



Shortly after the adjournment of the society, the committee 

 set about soliciting subscriptions, by means of letters and per- 

 sonal appeals, and invited small contributions from many rather 

 than large contributions from a few. The plan to erect at Woods 

 Hole a memorial to Professor Baird was favorably noticed in the 

 press and unqualifiedly endorsed by the fishing and scientific 

 public. 



From a statement furnished by the treasurer, Hon. E. G. 

 Blackford, it appears that tlie total amount suhscril)ed up to 

 July 15, 1901, was $503.25, of which $173.25 had l)een paid and 

 $30.00 remained unpaid. This sum has been contrilmted in 

 small amounts Ijy many persons, the largest individual subscrip- 

 tions being $20.00. 



At a called meeting of the committee held at Washington on 

 Feliruary 3, it was decided, after considering the probable 

 amount of the subscriptions, tliat the proposed memorial take the 

 form of a natural lumlder with suitably inscrilu'd artistic 



