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Active members. 

 1872, Prof. A. S. Bickmore, American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, New York City. 

 1901, T. J. Blakeslee, New York City. 

 1913, Austin Cook, Woonsocket, R. I. 

 1910, Thos. M. Darrah, Wheeling, W. Va. 

 1875, Dr. Theodore N. Gill, Washington, D. C, an au- 

 thority on the morphology, classification and 

 natural history of fishes. 

 1900, J. J. Hogan, Madison, Wis., life member and mem- 

 ber of the Wisconsin Board of Fish Commis- 

 sioners. 

 1903, Mr. E. C. Lambert, Manchester, N. H. 

 1899, Mr. Chas. H. Moore, Detroit, Mich. 

 1910, Mr. Overton W. Price, Washington, D. C., member 

 of the National Conservation Association and a 

 member of the Committee on Foreign Relations 

 of this Society. 

 1899, Mr. Henry T. Root, Providence, R. I., formerly 

 President of this Society during the year 1904-5. 

 The membership has been increased since the 1913 

 meeting by 33 members up to the beginning of this meet- 

 ing. The active membership is now over 600 though it 

 is probable a number of these will have to be dropped 

 in the near future for non-payment of dues. It is use- 

 less for us to carry dead wood on our membership list 

 and we must not deceive ourselves by the size of our 

 list, even though it is certain that our Society now has 

 more members in good standing than ever before. Every 

 member of this Society should organize himself into a 

 committee of one to push the work of the Society, to 

 make it known to his friends and especially to increase 

 the membership. When it is seen that New York and 

 Massachusetts have more than 60 members each, so that 

 the two of them have one-fifth of all the active member- 

 ship of the Society, some one must have been at work, 

 and when the little city of Akron, Ohio, with no unusual 

 fishery interests, has nine members of the 29 listed for 



