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Orleans wishes the majority report to be withdrawn we 

 are glad in the interests of the Society to accede to his 

 request, although it is not a distinct pleasure to do so. 



Mr. Fearing, of Rhode Island, representing the minor- 

 ity of the committee, then presented the following report : 



The Committee on Time and Place of Meeting begs to 

 report that offers to entertain the Society at its 45th 

 annual meeting were received from Atlantic City, Chi- 

 cago, St. Louis, Detroit, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Spring- 

 field, New Orleans, Oakland and San Francisco. The 

 committee having met after Mr. Alexander's withdrawal 

 of New Orleans as the meeting place for the forty-fifth 

 annual meeting, voted to recommend San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia, and the time as September 1 to 4, inclusive. 



(Signed) Daniel B. Fearing of Rhode Island, 

 John P. Woods, of Missouri, 

 S. W. Downing, of Ohio. 



Committee. 



Mr. Alexander: Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption 

 of the report. Before the motion is put, however, I beg 

 the privilege to state that we in New Orleans looked 

 forward with a great deal of pleasure to entertaining 

 this Society the present year and were much disappointed 

 that we did not have the privilege. At some future date 

 we hope to have that pleasure. The State of Louisiana 

 is, I believe from investigations that have been made, 

 richer in actual resources than any other state in the 

 Union. We have wonderful silver mines yielding twenty 

 millions of dollars annually, we have the greatest salt 

 mines in the western hemisphere, we have six of the 

 greatest oil fields and the greatest gas fields in the United 

 States ; we have forty-seven hundred miles of water-ways 

 teeming with choice fishes in great variety and the richest 

 oyster producing territory in the country; we have 

 twenty-eight millions of acres of the richest soil un- 

 der the sun, with great sugar, cotton and rice fields, 

 and we have the beautiful city of New Orleans. There 

 has been much ignorance and many false impressions 

 with regard to our State in other parts of the country 



