Fourteenth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



American Fisheries Society, 



(AMERICAN FISH-CCLTURAL ASSOCIATION.) 

 FIRST DAY. 



THE Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society, and the first 

 under the new name, was held in Washington, in the lecture 

 room of the National Museum, on May 5th and 6th. The meeting 

 was called to order at 12 m. on the 5th, by the President, 

 Hon. Theodore Lyman, of Massachusetts, with the following 

 remarks: 



Gentlemen of the American Fisheries Society: We are 

 at a season of the year when important events repeat themselves- 

 It is the spring. Baneful influences have passed away. Ice- 

 bound winter, as by a miracle, has given place to southern 

 breezes, and — still more strange — Congress has adjourned and 

 gone home. Good things come to the front, full of hope and 

 energy, and intent on growth and reproduction. Asparagus 

 protrudes its welcome green nose from the soil; the suggestive 

 pea flourishes defiant of late frosts. The English sparrow 

 industriously builds its nest in spots carefully selected to render 

 it as much a nuisance as possible; the cows go forth to pastures 

 green and reward the aqueous milkman with abundant flow of 

 milk pleasingly redolent of garlic. Nor do the waters less 

 respond to genial warmth; for now the shad and the herring. 



