THURSDAY MORNING SESSION. 



JULY 21, 1898, 9 A. n. 



President May: The meeting- will please come to order. I 

 think we had better have read the reports of such committees as 

 are ready to report. 



Mr. Whitaker: , I think that the Committee on Time and 

 Place of Meeting had better report first. The committee has no 

 written report, but submits the following report: 



Your Committee on the selection of time and place for the 

 next meeting of this Society, begs leave to submit the following 

 report. We met and considered the various propositions made to 

 the Society for the next place of meeting. We had invitations 

 from Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Niagara Falls. Taking the 

 whole matter into consideration, the central location of the place 

 and the fact that we have already met in the West two years in 

 succession, it seems to us that it is best to go East, to some cen- 

 tral point. Your Committee, therefore, respectfully submits 

 Niagara Falls as the place of the next meeting. After consulting 

 with Prof. Birge yesterday and this morning he suggests it would 

 perhaps more nearly meet the convenience of the men of the 

 colleges who are engaged in biological work and the college 

 examinations, if the fourth week in June were selected. I know 

 the field work on the lakes on w-hich the United States Commis- 

 sioners have entered will begin hereafter, in all probability, on the 

 first of July, and that would tie up some of these men after that 

 time. We, therefore, recommend Niagara Falls as the place of 

 meeting, and the 28th and 29th of June, 1899, as the time. 



President May: You have heard the report of the Commit- 

 tee, what is your pleasure? 



Mr. Gunckel: I move that the question be divided and a 

 vote be first taken on the location. 



Mr. Peabody: I would like to present the claims of Mil- 

 waukee and of Wisconsin very strongly. The climate, situation 

 on the lake and the interest in fish culture taken by the people of 

 Wisconsin and all that sort of thing, we think makes Wisconsin 

 and the city of Milwaukee the most desirable point to meet. The 

 city of Milwaukee has extended you a very cordial invitation, as 

 have the State Fish Commissioners. 



Mr^ Spencley: If it is thought best to have the Society meet 



