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Mr. Bartlett, of the Illinois Commission, was on the 

 programme for a paper on " Carp in Illinois." He had not 

 prepared the paper, but in a few brief remarks said that the 

 carp had increased and multiplied in his State, and it had pro- 

 duced tons of food from waters which had produced nothing 

 of value heretofore, and the carp was a great boon to the peo- 

 ple of Illinois and other States which had no ocean on their 

 borders from which to draw food. 



Mr. Fred Mather, a Superintendent of the New York 

 Fish Commission, had been put down for a paper on " Work 

 at Cold Spring Harbor," the station under his charge, but 

 pleaded, with Dr. Sweeny, that he had not been notified that 

 this was to be expected of him. He detailed the work with the 

 different fishes, and said that he had hatched the tomcods in 

 fresh water and had kept them there until the sac was absorbed, 

 and then planted them in brackish water. The experiments 

 with smelt had not brought out any new facts and the limited 

 allowance for his station had not permitted further experiments 

 with salt water fishes. The work of stocking the Hudson with 

 salmon had been continued by the U. S. Commission, of which 

 he was still one of the assistants, as well as one of the State 

 Superintendents, and that the results had been satisfactory. 

 He had built a new hatchery, which he would be pleased to 

 have any of the members visit. 



The question of the time and place of the next annual 

 meeting then came up and after some discussion it was decided 

 to accept the motion of Mr. Henry C. Ford to meet in Phila- 

 delphia, where he promised that the Anglers' Association of 

 Eastern Pennsylvania would see that the necessary arrange- 

 ments for entertaining the Society would be attended to. Mr. 

 Bissell moved that the next annual meeting of the Society be 

 held at Philadelphia on the third Wednesday and Thursday of 

 May, 1889, and it was carried. 



The election of officers for the following year then came 

 up. Mr. Bissell moved that a nominating committee be ap- 

 pointed, as heretofore. Mr. Mather favored nominations in 

 open meetings, because the committee system had not always 

 worked well, as some of the older members knew. On a vote 



