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range for the order of reading, so that it can be annouccd in ad- 

 vance, giving those who liave special interest in one line of work 

 an opportunity to be present at that meeting, if they cannot 

 attend all. In making these motions I request you to omit me 

 from any of those committees. 



President : Your suggestion is a good one, but 1 had intended 

 that the committee just appointed should be the committee on 

 progTam, and if there be no ohjection it will be so considered. 



Mr. Titcomb : That is entirely satisfactory. 



President : In regard to the committee on papers, I will put 

 that motion. 



(Unanimously carried ) . 



The President appointed on that committee Mr. Titcomb 

 Dr. Bean, and Mr. Seymour Bower. 



The following telegrams were received and greeted with ap- 

 plause : 



Washington, D. C, July 21. 

 To Hon. George M. Bowers, President. 



Society of Fisheries. 

 Accept for yourself and your associates my best wishes for a 

 most interesting and successful meeting. 



GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, Secretary, 



Department of Commerce and Labor. 



Boston, Mass., July 21. 

 To Commissioner of Fisheries, 



Woods Hole. 

 Will be at Woods Hole this afternoon. W. K. BROOKS. 



The Secretary's report was then called for. 



Secretary : The Secretary's report is embodied in the trans- 

 actions for the last year, and the only report that the Secretary 

 has to make in addition is that during the year the work of the 

 Secretary has been very much helped by the United States Fish 

 Commission in funiisliing a list of some 400 names of eligible 

 candidates for membership, to whom a circular letter has been 

 sent, and we have added approximately about fifty new member-^ 

 who have sent in their request for memlxn-shi]), and usually with 

 a very gTateful acknowledgement of tlie courtesy of the invitation 

 extended to them ; and some of them will be here I think. There 

 is nothino- now that tlu' Secivtary has to report, except to turn 



