60 • ^ Tzi'ciify-sc-i'cntli .iiniiial Meeting 



Robt. B. Roosevelt, who afterwards l:)ecame such an ardent and 

 influential supporter of the Association, read as follows : 



"The Constitution having been adopted, the following- offi- 

 cers were chosen for the ensuing year: W. Clift, Mystic Bridge, 

 Ct., President; Livingston Stone, Charlestown, N. H., Secretary; 

 B. F. Bowles, Springfield, Mass., Treasurer. 



"It was then moved that an elifort be made to secure an ex- 

 hibition of live fish at the next meeting, and that the following 

 gentlemen be requested to prepare papers, to be read at the next 

 meeting, on the subjects annexed to their names : 



"A. S. Collins — On 'Spawning Races and the Impregnation 

 of Eggs.' 



"J. H. Slack— On The Culture of Black Bass.' 



"W. Gift— On 'The Culture of Shad.' 



"Dr. Edmunds — On 'The Introdyction of Salmon into Am- 

 erican Rivers.' 



"B. F. Bowles — On 'Land-Locked Salmon." 



"Dr. Huntington — On 'Fish in the North Woods of New 

 York.' ' 1 I 



"Livingston Stone — On "The Culture of Trout.' 



"It was decided to hold the next meeting and exhibition in 

 connection with the New York Poiiltry Show, next year. It 

 was voted to send a report of the meeting for publication to the 

 New York Citizen and Round Table, the New York Tribune, 

 the Springfield Republican, the New York Poultry l>ulletin, and 

 other papers at discretion : and the Secretary was instructed to 

 mail the published reports to fish culturists generally." 



Following is an account of the first annual meeting of the 

 Association, taken from a New York paper of February 8, 1872: 



"At the afternoon session yesterday the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year : President, Wm. Clift ; Treas- 

 urer, B. F. Bowles; Secretary, Livingston Stone; Executive 

 Committee, Seth Green, J. D. Bridgman and A. C. Rupe. 



"A paper was read by A. S. Collins on spawning races and 

 impregnation of eggs; a paper by W. Clift on the culture of 

 shad, and a paper by Dr. Edmunds on the introduction of salmon 

 into American rivers. 



"A box of a hundred trout eggs that Mr. Stone had taken 

 by the Russian or dry method were examined, and 97 per cent. 

 were found to be impregnated. The interest of tlie meeting was 

 verv much increased by remarks interspersed during the intervals 

 by Seth Green. 



