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Mr. Graham, of Massachusetts: Mr. President, ?t 

 seems to me that this is the proper time to consider the 

 question of this Society meeting in conjunction with the 

 Association of Game and Fish Commissioners each year. 

 We have many interests in common and many members 

 belong to both organizations. This year there has been 

 some hitch in the arrangments and the members of the 

 Commissioners' Association feel that they have had too 

 little time for their meetings. I wish to offer the sug- 

 gestion that a committee be appointed from this Society 

 to confer with the officers of the Commissioners' Associa- 

 tion as to time and place of meeting and other matters 

 of interest to both societies, to prevent any misunder- 

 standing in the future. 



Moved and seconded that the President, Vice-president 

 and Secretary of the American Fisheries Society form a 

 committee to confer with a similar body of the Associa- 

 tion of Game and Fish Commissioners on matters of 

 interest to both societies. Motion carried. 



Report of the Committee on Time and Place of Meeting. 



President Ward: The Committee on Time and Place 

 of Meeting will now render its report. 



Mr. Alexander, of Louisiana: Mr. Chairman, I am 

 going to ask the privilege of postponing the report of 

 this committee, because I understand that it is not a 

 unanimous report and I believe that for the harmony 

 of its work this Society's actions should be as unanimous 

 as possible. I also understand that the city I have the 

 honor to represent, New Orleans, has received a majority 

 of the votes of the committee. If this committee will 

 withdraw its report, I am going to ask the consent of 

 the Society to withdraw the invitation of the city of New 

 Orleans for the convention of 1915. 



The committee retired for a few moments for further 

 consideration of the question. 



Mr. John P. Woods, of Missouri: Mr. Chairman, I 

 represent a majority of the committee as previously di- 

 vided on this question. But as the gentleman from New 



