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Fortieth Annual Meeting 



12, 1885 Eugene G. Blackford, bal. due Treasurer $102.58 



9, 1886 " bal. on hand 37.63 



30, 1887 " bal. due Treasurer 80.17 



10, 1888 " bal. on hand 61.65 



10, 1889 " bal. due Treasurer 5.29 



12, 1890 Henry C. Ford, bal. on hand 76.85 



26, 1891 " " 98.87 



24, 1892 " " 217.73 



1, 1893 " " 66.86 



14, 1894 Dr. R. Ormsby Sweeny, bal. on hand 67.49 



12, 1895 Frank J. Amsden, bal. on hand 64.06 



20, 1896 " " 141.32 



15, 1897 L. D. Huntington, bal. on hand 2,27.77 



12, 1898 " " 401.26 



26, 1899 " " 294.56 



18, 1900 " '• 216.34 



15, 1901 C. W. Willard, bal. on hand 165.09 



5, 1902 " " 101.14 



21, 1903 " " 62.65 



26, 1904 " bal. due Treasurer 46.50 



25, 1905 " " 111.87 



24, 1906 " " 26.78 



23, 1907 " bal. on hand 131.32 



21, 1908 " bal. due Treasurer 42.45 



27, 1909 " bal. on hand 292.05 



PUBLICATION OF REPORTS AND PAPERS 



The publications of the American Fisheries Society are 

 a valuable contribution to fishery literature, and especially 

 to fish-cultural literature. The membership has always 

 numbered in its ranks the men foremost in all fishery 

 affairs, and their contributions are of corresponding au- 

 thority. In fish culture, which has been the predominating 

 subject, the papers presented before the Society are in 

 effect a record of the progress of this practical science from 

 its first inception in America. The habits of fishes, fish 

 diseases, pollution of waters, fishing methods and fishing 

 industries, angling, the shellfish and lobster fisheries, fish 

 protection and administrative methods — these subjects and 

 various aspects of each are represented in the contents of 

 the Society's reports. 



The reports of the first two meetings, in 1870 and 1872. 

 were combined in a single document, but the Transactions 



