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as General Bryant, for example, have this time of year as theii- 

 vacation period when tliey can come here, and I think it meets 

 the convenience of more men than any other season of the year. 

 I, therefore, think St. Tjouis should hardly he considered on that 

 account, and yet if it is the voice of the convention we will do 

 all we can to make the meeting a success. 



General Bryant: I feel like supporting the motion, leaving 

 this to the officers to settle. It seems to he very generally un- 

 derstood that it would not be comfortable for us to go to St. 

 Louis in July. I spent a summer in St. Louis many years ago, 

 and I think you can find grease spots on the pavements yet 

 where I larded the lean earth (Laughter), and if you put it oif 

 until September I cannot go. I have to go on the jail limits in 

 Madison at that time, for I am a professor at the University. I 

 want to come to these meetings. It has got to be part of my liv- 

 ing to attend the meetings of this Society. If you have them at 

 St. Louis I must be left out. Then, too, if you go to St. Louis 

 you would have to put a ball and chain on Brother Lydell to 

 keep him anywhere within reach. (Applause and laughter). I 

 appreciate Dr. Bean's position entirely and I sympathize with 

 him, and I think I could risk a day or two at the International 

 CongTcss, but if I go there I want to go there as a delegate, rep- 

 resentative, or humble member to sit in that congress, not with 

 a divided dutj^ a split affection, and I do feel that we enjoy our- 

 selves better, we get into closer touch, than we would Avith all 

 our young lads running off for a Midway Plaisance (Laughter) ; 

 and that is my feeling about it, partly selfish and partly for the 

 interests of the Society. Xow, if developments are such that our 

 officers shall think at a later day that that is a proper thing to 

 do, why, we will all acquiesce in it. If they select some other 

 locality I have no doubt they mil select one that will be very 

 congenial to us all, and for my single and humble self I should 

 prefer to leave it in that way. I hate awfully to disappoint Dr. 

 Bean, but I am afraid if we get down there in that great multi- 

 tude we Avould feel like a small boy at a circus. 



Dr. Bean : It is not a question of disappointing Dr. Bean or 

 Doctor anybody, it is a question whether the American Fisheries 

 Society is big enough and strong enough to take its place as a 

 man in fishery matters. The other people are coming there, are 



