36 Fortieth Annual Meeting 



suspended for this particular meeting, and turned over to 

 the Special Anniversary Committee. 



Mr. Meehan : Is not there a committee appointed on the 

 question of the incorporation of this Society? 



President : No, that was left to the officers, not to a 

 special committee. 



President : The Committee on the Reading of Papers has 

 recommended that we take up the three bass papers; first, 

 Dr. Bean's, then Mr. Meehan's, and then Mr. Lydell's, and 

 discuss them together. The next paper will be read by 

 one of those rare individuals, who is both a scientific and a 

 practical man and who has done splendid work in both 

 directions. Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, of New York. 



Dr. Bean then read a paper entitled "Notes on Black 

 Bass." 



Mr. W. E. Meehan, Commissioner of Fisheries of Penn- 

 sylvania, then read a paper on "Observations on the Small- 

 mouth Black Bass During the Spawning Season of 1910." 



President: The next paper is entitled "Increasing and 

 Insuring the Output and Natural Food Supply of Small- 

 mouth Blass Bass Fry, and Notes on Combination of Breed- 

 ing and Rearing Ponds." This paper which is by Mr. 

 Dwight Lydell, of Comstock Park, Mich., will be read 

 by Dr. Raymond C. Osburn, Assistant Director of the New 

 York Aquarium. I want to say a word about the author 

 of this paper. He undoubtedly has had more practical 

 experience in the hatching of bass, has unquestionably 

 developed more new points concerning the hatching of bass, 

 and has actually hatched more bass than any man in this 

 or any other country. His batting average is always the 

 highest and his fielding is nearly perfect. (Applause.) 



Dr. Osburn then read Mr. Lydell's paper. 



Full discussion was then had on the three preceding 

 papers. 



President : I have not the honor of being acquainted with 

 the author of the paper that follows, although I have corre- 

 sponded with him. We shall now be pleased to hear from 



