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Mr. Clark : Along that line I have caused an amend- 

 ment to be drawn to Article III of the constitution, which 

 will read as follows: 



ARTICLE III 



The officers of this Society shall be a president and a vice-president, 

 who shall be ineligible for election to the same office until a year after 

 the expiration of their term ; a corresponding secretary, a recording 

 secretary, an assistant recording secretary, a treasurer, and an executive 

 committee of seven, which, with the officers before named, shall form 

 a council and transact such business as may be necessary when the 

 Society is not in session — four to constitute a quorum. 



In addition to the officers above named there shall be elected annually 

 five vice-presidents who shall be in charge of the following five divisions 

 or sections : 



1. Fish culture. 



2. Commercial fishing. 



3. Aquatic biology and physics. 



4. Angling. 



5. Protection and legislation. 



Mr. Clark : As you well know I had some talk on this 

 subject with you, Mr. President, and I heartily concur in 

 Dr. Smith's idea. Our Society up to the present has not 

 been large like some of the bodies that are now divided into 

 sections ; but we are growing and the time is not far distant 

 when a division into sections will become imperative. We 

 have papers sometimes that do not appeal to some of us as 

 practical fish culturists which will appeal to the scientists. 

 Occasionally a scientific paper does not appeal to the fish 

 culturists, but as the Society grows, if we have these dif- 

 ferent divisions or sections, the various subjects can be so 

 grouped as to be more interesting and beneficial. In addi- 

 tion it is thought that the vice-presidents will endeavor to 

 stimulate interest in their particular subjects, thus causing 

 a larger and better growth of the Society. For instance, the 

 vice-president of fish culture will push his line, the vice- 

 president of biology will push that line, and so on; and as 

 we grow — which we are destined to do — in ten or twenty 



