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72 in 1903, and 56 in 1908 were the largest in any given 

 year until the present, when the new names enrolled will 

 number over 130. 



PLACES OF MEETING 



Of the forty meetings already held, including the special 

 meeting in 1876, all but ten have been in the east, and 

 of the eastern meetings fifteen have occurred in New York 

 City. The first meeting of the Society was held in New 

 York City in the rooms of the New York Poultry Society, 

 the second at the Globe Hotel in Albany. The next four 

 meetings, from 1873 to 1876, inclusive, were held at the 

 office of George Shepard Page, 10 Warren St., New York 

 City. Then followed the extra meeting in connection with 

 the Centennial celebration at Philadelphia in 1876. From 

 1877 to 1883, inclusive, the meetings were held in New 

 York, the first of this series at the Aquarium, and those 

 succeeding at the rooms of the Directors of the Fulton 

 Market Fishmongers' Association, until the 1883 meeting 

 which was held at the Cooper Institute. In 1884, 1885, 

 and 1891, the place of meeting was the National Museum. 

 Washington, D. C. In 1908 the Society once more went to 

 Washington, with headquarters at the Arlington Hotel. 

 This meeting was in connection with the assembling" of the 

 Fourth International Fisheries Congress, which brought a 

 number of the Society's members from foreign countries. 

 Other eastern meeting places have been Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; Woods Hole, Mass.; Atlantic City, N. J.; White 

 Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and Erie, Pa. 



The first western meeting was at Chicago in 1886. 

 There were some misgivings that a meeting so far west 

 would not be well attended or advantageous to the Society. 

 The gathering was, however, a success in every way, and 

 Chicago was again selected as a place of meeting in 1893. 

 In 1898 the Society went to Omaha, Neb., the most west- 

 erly point of meeting so far in its history. Twice it met 

 at Detroit, Mich., in 1888 and again in 1897, and twice at 



