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pressing as in some other regions of our country, and 

 therefore there has been less interest in this work and 

 in the Society. If so, this is a condition that will bring 

 its own cure in a few years, — the necessity is already 

 keenly felt in some parts of the South, in fact. But of 

 far greater weight is the fact that the meetings have 

 always been held in the latter part of the summer, at 

 the time when the fisheries men are as a rule more 

 free to attend than at any other time, and then the 

 southern states are supposed to be hot. The climate may 

 be quite bearable, to be sure, as the writer can testify, 

 but the northern man who has not summered in the South 

 is firmly inclined to the belief that he would melt com- 

 pletely away if compelled to spend a few days in sum- 

 mer below Mason's and Dixon's Line. 



New Orleans has broken the ice (a mere figure of 

 speech, of course, as none ever occurs there outside of 

 the refrigerator and the drinkables), and undoubtedly 

 the meetings will be held in the South with increasing 

 frequency in coming years, especially with the growth 

 of membership in that section. — R. C. O. 



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