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A motion to put this into effect was duly made and 

 seconded and without discussion, was passed by the 

 Society. 



President: The Secretary has a matter to bring up, 

 which is in his hands, and I will ask him to present it 

 to you. 



Secretary Osburn: The members who were present 

 at the last meeting at Boston, will remember that the 

 preparation of an index to the first forty volumes of 

 the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society was 

 announced by our present Vice-President, Mr. Fearing. 

 This has been completed, final copies prepared and sub- 

 mitted to the Secretary. This is a careful piece of work, 

 covering 136 typewritten pages and involved an immense 

 amount of work. It includes all matters published during 

 the first forty years of the Society's work and is there- 

 fore a ready reference to everything issued up to and 

 including 1910. In order that I might have definite infor- 

 mation for you with regard to the cost of publication, 

 I submitted sample pages to the printers of our last vol- 

 ume. Their estimate for publishing this index in the 

 same form as our Transactions, so that it can readily 

 be bound up with them, is $215.00. I have no doubt that 

 it can be issued at a somewhat lower figure. I believe 

 that this index will be extremely useful in libraries as 

 well as to individuals who desire to look up any articles 

 published in these volumes. It should not be issued in 

 connection with any other volume, but should be separate 

 so that it can be inserted in the series at the end of the 

 forty volumes that it is meant to cover. 



President : This matter is before the Society for dis- 

 cussion. 



Mr. Titcomb, of Vermont: We are certainly very 

 much indebted to Mr. Fearing for this manuscript and I 

 sincerely hope the Society will take steps to have it pub- 

 lished, but we should give our publishing board plenty 

 of time to issue it properly. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer, of Washington, D. C. : I fully realize 

 what this work means as I happened to be a member of 

 a committee which has published such an index. It should 



