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my best to have a member of tbat committee bere, and after all: 

 the correspondence and considering to a certain extent my posi- 

 tion in tlie American Fisheries Society as being one of the old 

 members, I felt it was due to that city and committcv that E 

 should present the name, but I took special pains last evening- 

 to say it was not my personal choice. Am I not right ? 



Dr. Bean: Yes. 



Mr. Titcomb : For the committee I wish to say that they 

 have some of the same reasons for recommending that we do not 

 mcvt at Buffalo Avbicb tbcy bave for recommending that wc do 

 not meet in St. Louis. lUiifalo would be a more comfortable city 

 in July than St. Louis. St. Louis will be very hot. probably, but 

 the committee believe that this Society should meet in .some quiet 

 place, where there are no distractions whatexer, where we can 

 hav(» our meetings by ourselves and enjoy the country air and all 

 tbat sort of thing, and if possible get at some fisb cultural sta- 

 tion, or go to some point centrally located where it will be possi- 

 ble for us to take in the St. Louis exposition on the way. 



Mr. Clark: Just one word more, if you will permit. The 

 menil)ers may think I want this tiling left to the officers, but i 

 do not. The only reason 1 have not positively refused to allow it 

 to go that way is, that so long as I have been an active memter 

 in the Fisheries Society, some twenty-seven or twent}''-eight 

 years, I do not think I can call to mind a time when the recom- 

 mendations of the committcH' on time and place or officers wei"e 

 turned down. 



Mr. Atkins: I move that the committee be instructed to in- 

 vestigate this matter further and to re])ort to the officers of the 

 Society at a later date in relation to the subject of the time and 

 place of llie next meeting. 



Dr. Bean : I would like an expression of opinion from the 

 members of tliis Society. 1 think we should accept or reject the 

 invitation of St. Louis. 1 bave been stMit bere for the expres.^ 

 purpose of inviting the Society to meet at the exposition, and 

 they bave given every assurance that the Society will l)e wel- 

 comed and well cared for. and I tbink tbat it is due to the ex])o- 

 sition tbat we have an ex])ression of o])inion of tbe meinbershi]> 

 present, and 1 would like to have it very much. 



Secretar\': I would like to sav a word rei;ar(lini>' tbe invita- 



