THE PACIFIC FISHERIES SOCIETY 



By John N. Cobb, Secretary, Seattle, Wash. 



The members of this Society will doubtless be inter- 

 ested in learning the details of the formation of a sister 

 society with a much more restricted sphere, viz., The 

 Pacific Fisheries Society. 



On March 11, 1914, a meeting of those interested in 

 the upbuilding and perpetuating of the great fisheries of 

 the Pacific slope was held in Seattle, Wash., and it was 

 decided to form a temporary organization and to hold a 

 meeting later in the year for the purpose of making the 

 organization a permanent one. The constitution of this 

 Society, with the exception of a few slight changes neces- 

 sitated by the present smallness of the membership, was 

 adopted. 



The following officers were elected to serve temporari- 

 ly: President, Carl Westerfeld, California Fish and Game 

 Commission, San Francisco, Cal. ; Vice-President, Henry 

 O'Malley, Pacific Coast Superintendent of Hatcheries for 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Seattle, Wash. ; Vice-President, 

 Prof. Trevor Kincaid, Head of the Department of Zoolo- 

 gy, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. ; Secretary, 

 John N. Cobb, Editor of the Pacific Fisherman, Seattle, 

 Wash., and Treasurer, Russell Palmer, Seattle, Wash. 



The first annual meeting was held at the University of 

 Washington, in Seattle, on June 10-12, 1914, and was at- 

 tended by over 50 of the 126 members on the rolls of the 

 Society on June 10. A number of interesting and in- 

 structive papers were read by the members, not the least 

 important of which was one by Dr. H. M. Smith, U. S. 

 Commissioner of Fisheries, who came to the coast espe- 

 cially to attend this meeting, and who was unanimously 

 elected an honorary member. 



The Society voted to retain for another year the offi- 

 cers elected at the March meeting, and in addition the 

 following, to serve as an executive committee: Dr. Bar- 

 ton W. Evermann, Director of the Museum of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal.; C. 



