62 Thirtieth Annual Meeting 



THE INDEX. 



BY JOHN E. GUNCKEL. 



The iVmerican Fisheries Society is likened unto a lake 

 nestled at the foot hills of the Eockies which contain all the 

 songs the mountain Ijrooks and streams have sung. Drop by 

 drop from the snow-clad, unexplored peaks, the water forms 

 overflowing basins, liesitating pools, miniature cascades, and 

 cataracts of unsurpassed grandeur and magnificence ; lost for a 

 time in the recesses of heavy forests and then peacefully flowing 

 through overland meadows of wondrous shades and beauty. 



It took thirty-one years to gather into this American Fish- 

 eries lake the knowledge gained by systematic oljservation, ex- 

 periment and reasoning of its members. 



The records of the past century reveal that this society, 

 within its life, has made more progress in the details of scien- 

 tific researches than during all the past centuries. As evidence 

 of this fact read the oflicial reports of the transactions of our 

 society. The progress in the art and sciences made by men 

 whose lives were devoted to the beneficiary work of mankind 

 should receive more than a passing notice and recognition of 

 their discoveries and labors. 



It is tlierefore fitting that we should frequently stop in our 

 active daily work and pay tribute and respect to our absent fel- 

 low companions who worked so diligently and earnestly with us 

 for so many years and are now sleeping away the centuries. Men 

 who devoted their lives to the cause of fish culture, the fisheries 

 and marine biology, and "The only reward they asked — a grate- 

 ful remembrance of their work." 



Dr. Theodatus Garlick, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Prof. G. 

 Brown Goode, Judge Emory D. Potter, Col. Marshall Mc- 

 Donald, Fred Mather, Herschel Whitaker, Henry C. Ford and 

 many others whose names and valuable works you will recall. 

 Ai-()und these men circle memories that time cannot efface. These 

 men were leaders in biology and general scientific researches. To 

 them and their associates the American people owe much; more 

 than a memorial tribute of words. Thev discovered and harvest- 



