14 Tliirty-Second Annual Meeting 



President: In the absence of the chairman and treasurer of 

 the committee in charge of the memorial services concerning the 

 unveiling of a memorial to Prof. Baird, I deem it proper at this 

 time that a committee should be appointed by the American 

 Fisheries Society to assume and take control of this whole mat- 

 ter. I therefore suggest that Mr. Frank N. Clark, and Mr. W. De 

 C. Eavenel, and Mr. E. F. Locke, be named as members of that 

 committee, subject to the approval of the Society. 



Secretary : I have a letter from Mr. Blackford in which he 

 says: "I am so ill this week that I can hardly write intelligi- 

 bly," and he apologizes for not being able to be present, and has 

 turned over the matter of the memorial services entirely to this 

 meeting, and encloses a check which might perhaps be consid- 

 ered later, for a balance that has inured. 



President : I found, in looking over some memoranda of Dr. 

 Smith's, that arrangements had been made with Prof. Brooks of 

 Johns Hopkins University to deliver this address, and I commun- 

 icated with Prof. Brooks a week or so ago, and he gave me to 

 understand that he would be here tomorrow. It would be neces- 

 sary, however, under a previous arrangement made with Dr. 

 Smith, for the Society to defray his expenses. I think that was 

 the arrangement. 



Secretary : That is the understanding. 



President: That is, out of the memorial fund already pro- 

 vided for? 



Secretary : Yes, and whatever money is left will probably 

 inure to the coffers of the American Fisheries Society. 



Mr. Titcomb : I move that we take up as the next business, 

 the naming of the various committees usually appointed, and 

 add to those of last year, a committee on program, the duty of 

 that committee to be to an-ange for time of meetings, and the 

 time for recreation, which will go with the meetings hand in 

 hand. As many of you know, we can hold meetings while we 

 are on the boat, going to any place we wish to visit ; and some 

 of the proprietors of commercial hatcheries here, desire the So- 

 ciety to visit their places. 



Another committee I would suggest, is a committee on pa- 

 pers, who should receive the papers, ascertain just how many 

 there are besides those that are on the printed program, and ar- 



