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Dr. Sweeny moved that the Treasurer be authorized to 

 sell the reports, but it was argued that as this was all that 

 absent members got for their dues, such a course would tend 

 to decrease membership. The motion was lost. 



Dr. Hudson complained that the last report had been 

 delayed and had only appeared a month before this meeting. 

 Mr. Mather explained that everything was in the printer's 

 hands last August, but that there had been no money in the 

 treasury to pay for it. In view of this fact he had asked Mr. 

 Blackford if it would not be well to increase the annual dues 

 from $3 to $5, but the Treasurer had said that the present sum 

 was ample, if the members would pay their dues promptly. 



A long argument was held on the propriety of allowing 

 papers to be printed before they appear in the report, because 

 some editors who never sent a reporter to the meetings, even 

 when held in their own cities, had objected to their publication 

 in Forest and Stream. Finally, on motion of Mr. Bissell, 

 Messrs. Mather, Hudson and Ford were appointed a com- 

 mittee in custody of the papers, and to attend to the publica- 

 tion and to use their judgment about selecting a printer and 

 getting the report out at as early a day as possible. They 

 were also to allow such papers to be copied for simultaneous 

 publication in other journals, if it be requested, the expense 

 of copying to be borne by those wishing copies. This com- 

 mittee to meet at Mr. Blackford's, in Fulton Market, on 

 Saturday, June 2, at 12 M. 



It was also voted that the printing should be begun by 

 June I, and that those which are not then on hand shall be 

 omitted, and the meeting adjourned until next year. 



During the discussions and the after-dinner speeches on 

 the boat, it cropped out that Mr. Fitzhugh had been quietly 

 taking notes of the animated nature observable about the club 

 house, and he was called on to give the results of his observa- 

 tions. Dr. Hudson, who had been working in a similar line 

 on the St. Clair Flats, stated that the time for scientific obser- 

 vation at the Flats had been too short to make public the 

 hastily-gleaned facts of a naturalist, and to eliminate the 

 personal equation which is always consequent upon hastily 



