10 Thirty-First Annwil Mrcting 



Wq have received the following letter from the Board of 

 Game and Fish Commissioners of the state of Minnesota : 



STATE OF MINNESOTA. 



Board of Game and Fish Commissioners. 



St. Paul, August 2nd. 1902. 

 Mr. George F. Peabody, Sec, 



American Fisheries Society, 



Put-in-Bay, O. 

 Dear Sir: — 



This will introduce to you Dr. Ethelbert F. Greer, who takes a 



big interest in everything pertaining to fish and fish culture. He 



wishes to become a member of the American Fisheries Society and 



is leaving our city to attend the meeting. If consistent, I would like 



him to represent our Minnesota Game and Fish Commission and 



anything you can do to make it pleasant for the doctor will be verj 



much appreciated. Yours very truly, 



SAM. F. FULLERTON. 



Executive Agent. 



I desire to propose the doctor as a meniher of this association. 

 He happened to fall in with the Philistines coming do^\^l from 

 Detroit this morning, bnt did not snffer any serious and lasting 

 damage from the enconnter. 



(Laughter and suggestion that the suffering may come later). 



(Candidates for membership were then proposed and elected, 

 whose names together with those of all others elected during the 

 several sessions of the society appear at the ])eginning of the 

 printed proceedings. President E. E. Bryant then took the 

 chair. 



President Bryant: I give you greeting and assure you of my 

 great satisfaction in seeing so many faces that have grown famil- 

 iar and dear to me, as engaged in this work. I congratulate you 

 u])on your safe arrival here, and I think in selecting tlie place 

 for our meeting, the good committee who made this selection and 

 recommended it to our society, builded l;)etter than they knew; 

 for certainly it is a charming spot; and one good tiling aliout it 

 is that it is going to be a little ditbcidt for us to get away until 

 our meeting is over. (Laughter). 



Wo have everything to cheer us on in tliis work. It is less 

 tliaii lialf a cciituiT since the feasibility of the idea of increasing 

 tlie i)roductivity of the waters was l)rought to the notice of inen; 

 and the result that has been accomplished in that half century is 



