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]\fr. Gnnekol: At any time l)y a vote of two-tliirds of tliose 

 present, ijrovided fifteen are present. 



Dr. Birge: My own feeling is that unless it is very easy to 

 get away from it, it is not advisalile to tie ourselves np to an 

 order of lousiness from whieh we cannot depart pretty readily. 

 I notice, for instance, one thing in this proposed amendment 

 wliich I feel sure the society will want to change quite fre- 

 quently, and that is, that the papers are to be read in the order 

 in which notification is received l)y the secretary. Certainly if 

 we have a group of papers on a given subject, as we had last 

 night on the trout, and are expecting to have today on the l)lack 

 bass, I suppose it would be frequently, at least, the wish of the 

 society that the papers connected in sul)ject should l)e read to- 

 gether, rather tlian scattered around and sandwiched in with 

 papers that have no relation to them. 



Mr. Titcomb : I concur with Prof. Birge on that part of this 

 amendment. It seems to me that the order of the reading of the 

 ]:)aper should be decided by either a committee or the officers who 

 have charge of the meeting, and if this rule is adhered to we 

 would not have our jiapers grouped in the order they ought to 

 come. For illustration, today, by your committee on program, 

 it was suggested that we take all of the day's papers at one ses- 

 sion, and wYy frequently a man comes a long distance and is in- 

 terested in bass, or is interested in trout. Xow, he would like to 

 liear everything on that one subject during one session; he may 

 have to go away. T thiiik further while talking on this subject, 

 1 hough it may not be entirely about that resolution, that we 

 ought to have a committee to whom all papers should be sub- 

 mitted, and let them decide Avhether those papers are all to be 

 read. We may have some paper that we do not want ])ublished 

 by the American Fisheries Society. Sonu> crank may read a 

 ])a])ei' which does not do the society credit. We might get some 

 stuff into our ])amphlets that would not do us credit Avhen sent 

 broadcast through the world as om- pamphlets are; and a com- 

 mittee could look them over and be a sort of a censor body per- 

 haps. I object to that clause. 1 think if that note was simply 

 omitted, then Ave can sus])end rules any time to carry out Prof. 

 l)irge"s idea, and we would not be tied u\) in that ]iarticular part 

 of it. I think we oueht to lunc an order of business. 



