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worthy in being the first to come up under the convention for the 

 settlement of international disputes concluded at the second peace con- 

 ference at The Hague in 1907. 



Will you please convey to the members of the Society my greetings 

 and best wishes for a most successful meeting. Sincerely yours, 



Hugh M. Smith. 



President: Here is a short letter from an old-lime hon- 

 orary member that should be read. 



The Acting Secretary then read the following letter: 



Haarlem, Holland, Sept. 16, 1910. 

 Mr. Seymour Bower, President of the American Fisheries Society. 



Sir : — I have duly received the announcement of the fortieth anni- 

 versary meeting of the American Fisheries Society and I am sorry not 

 to be able to attend it. 



Yet it would have given me great pleasure to do so and to use the 

 opportunity, personally, to express my feelings of sympathy with your 

 Society. So I am now obliged to do this by letter : receive my hearty 

 congratulations and my best wishes for the future on the occasion of 

 the fortieth birthday of your Society. 



Having had the great honor, some years ago, to be elected an honor- 

 ary member, having studied the proceedings on several occasions, and 

 having had the advantage of making personal acquaintance with your 

 Society, being present at the Washington meeting in September, 1908, I 

 am, no doubt, permitted to say that your Society has already done 

 excellent work in the interest of your fisheries, and that we are fully 

 entitled to expect that it will, in future also, largely contribute to the 

 maintenance and the development of this industry which so greatly 

 interests us. 



With my best wishes for the success of your anniversary meeting and 

 my respectful greetings for yourself and for many of your members, 

 whom it would be for me a great pleasure to meet again, 1 have the 

 honor to be, Sir, yours sincerely and respectfully, 



P. P. C. HOEK, 



Honorary Member, 



President: We have a short letter from Professor 

 Prince, Commissioner of Fisheries of the Dominion of 

 Canada, that I should like to have read. 



The Acting Secretary tlien read the following letter: 



Wynvard, Sask., Sept. 16, 1910. 

 The Secretary of the American Fisheries Society, New York Aquarium, 

 iyc7v York City. 

 Dear Sir: — I very much regret to find that I shall be away on an 

 official trip over the northern waters of Alberta, Canada, at the time of 



