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EDITORIAL 



The Matter of Dues. The Acting Treasurer reports 

 that a good many members of the Society seem to be in 

 doubt as to the time when the annual membership fee 

 falls due. According to a long established custom, dat- 

 ing back apparently to the first meeting in 1870, this fee 

 falls due at the time of the annual meeting and, on pay- 

 ment, the member is entitled to all privileges at that 

 meeting and up to the beginning of the succeeding an- 

 nual meeting. Thus a member who paid his dues at the 

 1915 meeting, or afterward when notified by the Treas- 

 urer, would be entitled to all the privileges of member- 

 ship up to, but not including, the 1916 meeting. At the 

 time of the 1916 meeting the fee again fell due, as fees 

 should be paid in advance to entitle members to receive 

 the Transactions. This interpretation is based on the 

 unanimous opinion expressed by a number of the past 

 and present officers of the Society. 



It should be added that in case a member is elected 

 after the annual meeting his membership dates back to 

 that time, unless he expressly desires to begin with the 

 next annual meeting, and he is entitled to any back num- 

 bers of the Transactions included in the volume current 

 at the time of his application. The misunderstanding 

 evidently rests on the fact that the fiscal year of the 

 Society does not correspond to the calendar year, but 

 runs from one annual meeting to the next. 



Back Volumes of Transactions at Reduced Prices. 

 At the last annual meeting of the Society it was decided 

 to offer back volumes of the Transactions to members 

 only, at half price. This action was taken for two rea- 

 sons : First, to encourage the more recently elected mem- 

 bers to increase their libraries on fisheries matters by 

 the addition of volumes of the Transactions antedating 

 their membership. Second, to increase to some extent 



