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]\Ir. Clark : I move that the Secretary at his conve- 

 nience a httle later write a letter to Mr. Stone, or his wife 

 or his son, or all of them, expressing the sympathy of the 

 American Fisheries Society as to his condition, saying that 

 the members of the Society thought of him while holding 

 this fortieth anniversary meeting. 



Mr. Titcomb : May I add to that message and have the 

 motion that we make Mr. Livingston Stone an honorary 

 member of this Society? 



Mr. Clark : I accept that amendment as part of the 

 original motion. 



The motion was unanimously carried. 



Acting Secretary: The Society took action of simi- 

 lar nature three years ago when resolutions of sympathy 

 were extended to the family regarding Mr. Stone's con- 

 dition, very much after the manner of the present occasion. 



President : I believe this closes the hour we were to 

 devote to reminiscences, but I will say that you will perhaps 

 want to see the pictures of five of the early members of 

 the Society, Mr. Atkins, Mr. Seth Green, Mr. Fred Mather, 

 Mr. Livingston Stone, and Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt. 



Acting Secretary : These photographs were brought 

 here at the request of Dr. H. M. Smith and are his property, 



President: Mr. August Christman, Secretary of the 

 United Anglers' League of New York, has a few remarks 

 to make. 



Mr. Christman : The most detrimental thing to the 

 sport of angling about Greater New York is the pollution 

 of the waters. We have a law that prohibits pollution ; but 

 we find that New York City itself is the greatest offender 

 against the law. We find another thing, that the menhaden 

 fishermen on the coast come as close as a quarter or half 

 a mile to shore after menhaden, but if they should chance 

 to run into weakfish or the like they do not hesitate to take 

 a seine and catch them. They may not bring them into 

 market ; I cannot say that because I do not know it to be a 



