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that I think liad liettcr be attended to 1)efore we proceed with 

 tlie regular program. 



I have invitations from chft'erent parties in regard to the meet- 

 ing of the Society for next year. 



Secretary Whitaker tlien read a letter from David S. Rose, 

 Mayor of Milwaukee, and also a telegram sent by the Citizens' 

 Business League of ^lilwaukee to the President of this Society; 

 also a letter from John W. Titcomb, President of the Vermont 

 L'ish Commission; also a letter from A. S. Hastings. Mayor of 

 Niagara Falls, X. Y. ; also a letter from the President of the 

 State Park of Niagara Falls, inviting the Society to meet at 

 that place. 



I think it would be well to appoint a committee to select the 

 place of meeting for next year, antl I move that the chair ap- 

 point a committee of three to decide upon the next place of 

 meeting. 



The motion was duly seconded and imanimouslv carried. 



The Chair: I will name that conuuittee later on. 



Secretary Whitaker: I move that the invitations read be re- 

 ceived placed on tile and referred to the conuuittee. 



The motion was duly seconded and carried. 



President W. L. May then resumed the chair. 



Secretary \\'hitaker: 1 have a conununication here from Mr. 

 Emilie Cachcux. I have had a translation made, which is as fol- 

 lows : 



The Second International Congress of Commercial Fisheries 

 and ( )ystcrculture, under the auspices of the Ministers of Com- 

 merce, of Pul)lic Instruction, of the Colonies and of the Marine 

 and Agriculture, in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce 

 of the City of Dieppe, from the 2d to the 6th of September, 1898. 



Oflfice of the General Secretarv. 



25 Ouai St. Michel, July 6th, 1898. 

 To the Secretary of the American T^isheries Society: 



I have the honor of addressing you by this mail a pamphlet 

 of our society and a program of the International Congress of 

 Fisheries, which meets, at Dieppe from the 2d to the 6th of Sep- 

 tember next. 



We shall be very happy to see yoiu* society represented at 

 this Congress, whose prime object will l)e to eiTect a preparation 



