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proper to listen to invitations or suggestions that might 

 serve as a guide to the eoniniitteo in selecting the location. 



'Mv. r>o\ver: I suggest that the committee give a hearing, 

 and such suggestions and invitations be made at the hear- 

 ing. 



Mr. I>umi)ns: I move that what has just been said be inter- 

 ])reted as instructions to the committee. I second the motion 

 with that understanding. 



President Peabody: It is understood, then^, that the com- 

 mittee will give a hearing. 



The motion prevailed, and the President announced that the 

 couimirtee would be designated later. 



Mr. do Ravenel: Mr. President, I would like to ask whether 

 any of the State Fish Commissions here represented expect to 

 make an exhibit at the Pan-American Exhibition to be held in 

 P>uftalo in 1001. I represent the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion there, and have recently attended a meeting of the Gov- 

 ernment Board in Buffalo, and we are arranging for a very 

 interesting aquarium exhibit. We want to make it the best 

 live fish exhibit that has been made in this country at any 

 exhibition, not excepting the World's Fair, and if any State 

 Commissions have appro])riations for that purpose, or for any 

 othei' })urposes, as far as the exhibition of fish is concerned, 



1 would like, in behalf of the Exposition people and the United 

 States Fish Commission, to ask that they co-operate with us 

 rather than put up an opposition show. This does not pertain 

 strictly to the American Fisheries Society, but I thought it 

 would be well to bring the question up and call it to the atten- 

 tion of any gentlemen who might be interested. I think if 

 they propose to go into it that with the means now at our dis- 

 posal we can put up an aquarium, and in fact pay all the ex- 

 penses. 



Some further discussion ensued in reference to the fishery 

 exhibit at the Pan-American Exhibition and the Paris Exposi- 

 tion, after which the President announced as the committee 

 upon the place of meeting Messrs. Titcomb, Gunckel and Dale; 

 as tlie committee on nomination of otliceis. Messrs. Whitaker. 

 Bumpus, George, Clark and de Bavenel. 



On motion duly seconded the Convention adjourned until 



2 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



President Peabody called the Convention to order at 2 

 o'clock, and called for the report of the committee on place of 

 meeting. 



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