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keeping food in suspension, nor to develop any difficulty which 

 might arise from decaying food. 



Reports of the Northern Fisheries Society of Japan were 

 shown, and a translation of the headings of the articles read, as 

 was also a letter from the president of that society, Mr. K. Ito, 

 who called attention to some translated extracts from Forest 

 and Stream, and to a portrait of Prof G. Brown Goode, which 

 adorned one of the reports. 



A letter from Mr, Seth Green was read but was carried off by 

 some of the reporters. He commended the work of the society 

 and congratulated the Michigan Commission in having an able 

 Superintendent in Mr. Walter D. Marks. He also announced 

 that Jonathan Mason had succeeded in hatching the mascalonge 

 at Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., the first of this species to be artifi- 

 cially hatched. 



THE LATE PROF. SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



Dr. W. M. Hudson moved that a committee be appointed 

 to draft a resolution of regret at the death of Prof S. F. Baird, 

 and the president named Dr. Hudson, Dr. Sweeny and Mr. J. 

 H. Bissell as such committee. Later on they reported the fol- 

 lowing, which was accepted by the Society : 



IN MEMORY OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 

 . "Since the last meeting of this Society, our associate, Prof 

 Spencer F. Baird, United States Commissioner, has been re- 

 moved from the scene of his labors by death. This Society 

 hereby puts on record its appreciation of the great efficiency 

 and admirable administrative qualifications by which he caused 

 the position of U. S. Commissioner to be regarded as the first 

 in the entire world, and mourns the loss of one who by his lov- 

 able qualities had endeared himself to all who came in contact 

 with him." 



Mr. William Alden Smith, fish and game warden for 

 the State of Michigan, spoke on the regulation of the fisheries, 

 outlining the work of his i8o deputies and himself in executing 



