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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



American Fisheries Society. 



FIEST DAY. 



The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the 

 lecture room of the National Museum, at Washington, D. C., on 

 Tuesday, May 3Tst, and Wednesday, June ist. In the absence 

 of Dr. W. M. Hudson, President of the Society, Vice-President 

 W. L. May called the meeting to order at ii a. m. on Tuesday, 

 and after a short address the meeting adjourned until 3 o'clock 

 in the afternoon. 



On assembling again the following new members were elected: 

 M. B. Hill, Clayton, N. Y.; Calvert Spensley, Mineral Point, 

 Wis.; Walter D. Marks, Paris, Mich. The following were elected 

 corresponding members: K. Ito, Hokkaido, Cho, Sapporo, Japan, 

 member of the Fisheries Department of Hokkaido, and President 

 of the Fisheries Society; W. Oldham Chambers, Esq., Secretary 

 National Fish-Culture Association, South Kensington, London. 



Dr. H. H. Carv said he had recently been examining oysters 

 on the coast of Georgia with a view to planting in Lake Worth, 

 Fla. The lake is situated on the east coast in one of the south- 

 ern counties, near Jupiter Inlet, and is twenty-three miles long. 

 It was once a fresh .water lake, separated from the ocean by a 

 barrier of coquina formation; but the inlet has been cut for the 

 transportation of boats of ten tons or more, and now the lake is 

 partially salt. The temperature of the Gulf Stream is not far 



