7^ Fortieth Annual Meeting 



fact, but I know that the individual angler can go alongside 

 of those boats and procure the fish at a small sum. 



President: The Secretary will announce the next 

 paper. 



Acting Secretary: Prof. Francis H. Herricl<, Adelbert 

 College, Cleveland, Ohio, sends a paper on "Protecting the 

 Lobster," with the suggestion that it be read in full or by 

 title only, according to the exigencies of the occasion. 



Dr. Osburn : Professor Herrick's paper is of such an 

 excellent character that the committee thought it best to read 

 the paper even though he is absent. 



Dr. Osburn then read Professor Herrick's paper, which 

 was discussed. 



The Acting Secretary then read a paper written by Mr. E. 

 W. Barnes, of the Rhode Island Fisheries Commission, 

 entitled "The Season of 1910 at the Fisheries Ex- 

 periment Station at Wickford, R. L, which was discussed. 



President : The next paper will be read by a gentleman 

 to whom we are under great obligations for his assistance 

 in making this meeting a success. Dr. Raymond C. Osburn, 

 of Columbia University, and Assistant Director of this 

 Aquarium, will speak on "The Effects of Exposure on 

 the Gill Filaments of Fishes." 



Dr. Osburn's paper was then read and discussed. 



President : The Secretary has started to prepare a 

 history of the Society. He has merely the rough draft 

 today, and will read only a small portion of it, as a great 

 deal of it is necessarily statistical, but really should be put 

 in the report when it is fully completed, because it will save 

 some one else a lot of time in compiling the same set of 

 facts. 



The Acting Secretary, Mr. Ward T. Bower, United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C, then read a "His- 

 tory of the American Fisheries Society." 



Mr. Roy W. Miner, Assistant Curator of Invertebrate 

 Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, then spoke 



