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EDITORIAL 



THE SAN FRANCISCO MEETING 



The Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Fish- 

 eries Society was held at San Francisco, Cal., on Sep- 

 tember 1-4. Although the attendance was somewhat 

 smaller than usual the meeting was full of interest and 

 the membership of the Society was increased by the elec- 

 tion of three new patrons and about seventy-five new 

 members. 



Prof. Jacob Reighard, of the University of Michigan, 

 was elected President of the Society for the year 1915-16, 

 and Dr. Geo. W. Field, State Commissioner of Fisheries 

 and Game for Massachusetts, Vice-President. The names 

 of the remaining officers and the members of the various 

 committees appear, as usual, on the back cover page. 



A full account of the proceedings of the meeting will 

 appear in a later number of the Transactions. 



The next annual meeting — the forty-sixth — will be 

 held in New Orleans, La., and the date is set for October 

 16 to 19, 1916. 



PACIFIC FISHERIES SOCIETY 

 Our sister society of the Pacific Coast held the second 

 annual meeting at San Francisco on August 9-11, 1916. 

 An interesting meeting is reported. The following of- 

 ficers were elected for the coming year : President, Mr. 

 Henry O'Malley, Oregon City, Ore. ; Vice-President, Prof. 

 Trevor Kincaid, Seattle, Wash.; Second Vice-President, 

 Prof. Chas. L. Edwards, Los Angeles, Cal.; Secretary, 

 Mr. John N. Cobb, Seattle, Wash. ; Treasurer, Mr. Rus- 

 sell Palmer, Seattle Wash. ; Chairman of Executive Com- 

 mittee, Dr. Barton W. Evermann, San Francisco, Cal. 



Portland, Oregon, was selected as the next meeting 

 place, but the date is not yet fixed. 



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