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Secretary be requested to cast the ballot of the members present 

 for that ticket. 



Which motion being dvily seconded, was carried unanimously. 



The Chairman. — A matter which comes over from last year I 

 suppose should be acted upon, and perhaps there will be no 

 better time for it than the present. Those of you who were 

 present last year, know that tliere was a proposed constitution 

 read at the meeting of last year, and it has been published with 

 the proceedings; it must be acted upon at this meeting. If the 

 Society desires, the Secretary will read the proposed constitu- 

 tion, and then it may be acted upon either article by article or as 

 a whole, as the Society deems best. Tlie Secretary will read the 

 constitution. 



Secretary Mather. — I would state by way of explanation 

 that this Society has been known for years as "The American 

 Fish-cultural Association," but that it was deemed best to 

 change the title last year when the new constitution was formed. 



It was moved by Mr. Bissell, and duly seconded, that each 

 article be taken up separately and acted upon by the Convention. 



No objection being heard this course was adopted by the 

 Society. (See Constitution, page 3.) 



Secretary Mather. — Mr. President, I would like to say that 

 we had a society called " The Central Fish-cultural Society," 

 which met twice here in Chicago and died. Its first meeting was 

 held in the Palmer House, on October 1st and 2nd, 1879, and 

 the second was held in the Grand Pacific Hotel, on December 

 15th and i6th, 1880. We never met since. 



Last evening there was a little meeting of the few survivors 

 gathered in the Palmer House to view the remains, and this is 

 the result, which I respectfully beg leave to submit : 



