Seventeenth Annual Meeting 



— OF THE- 



American Fisheries Society, 



FIRST DAY. 



The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Society was held 

 in the room of the Detroit Lodge of Elks, No. 34, in Detroit, 

 Mich., on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 15 and 16. The 

 attendance was larger than usual and many States were repre- 

 sented, the result of a special invitation of United States Fish 

 Commissioner McDonald to the different State Commissioners 

 to meet him and devise some system of co-operation between 

 the States having common fishery interests, and also between 

 them and the general Government. There was a meeting of 

 the Commissioners in the evening. 



The meeting was called to order Tuesday morning, May 

 15, President W. L. May, of Nebraska, in the chair. Dr. R. 

 O. Sweeny, of Minnesota, made a happy opening address in 

 which he alluded to the call of Col. McDonald for a conference 

 of Commissioners and pointed out the great benefits that would 

 come to all by uniting and working in concert. The following 

 new members were elected : Messrs. Henry C. Ford, James 

 V. Long, and W. H. Powell, of the Pennsylvania Fish Com- 

 mission ; M. E. O'Brien, Superintendent Nebraska Commis- 



