10 TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



Mr. Titcomb: Mr. Chairman, your committee has had sev- 

 eral propositions and invitations, and Commissioner George 

 of Maryland has snggested that we come to Monntain Lake 

 Park, and has presented the advantages of the place. We un- 

 derstand that the President, representing the Wisconsin Com- 

 mission, has offered inducements and invited us to Milwaukee; 

 that Mr. Whitaker has presented letters from Governor Pin- 

 gree and others, inviting us to Detroit or Lansing. Dr. Par- 

 ker invites us to Grand Kapids, and the LTnited States Fish 

 Commission, represented by Dr. Bumpus, invites us to Woods 

 Hole. We have canvassed the different places mentioned, and 

 we think Woods Hole will be the best place to meet, for sev- 

 eral reasons. It will give us an opportunity to visit the hatch- 

 ery of the United States Fish Commission, where they are 

 propagating marine fishes; there is a biological station where 

 scientific work is going on, and there are many professional 

 and scientific men who would naturally join the society if we 

 meet at that place. I am well aware that the Commissioner, 

 in his generous heartedness, has great plans of hospitality for 

 us and will present all facilities of the commission in the way 

 of boats, etc., so that we can get around to see the work that 

 is going on there. In view of all the circumstances, your 

 committee respectfully recommend that the next meeting be 

 held at Woods Hole some time in July. The second week has 

 been proposed, and that seems to be a convenient time, espe- 

 cially to superintendents of stations, as the fiscal year ends the 

 30th of June and all have to prepare extensive reports. 



Mr. Willard: I move that the recommendations of the com- 

 mittee be adopted. 



Mr. Clark: Mr. Chairman, I would submit the suggestion 

 that possibly voting on this subject ought to be laid over until 

 after the election of new members, so that they may have an 

 opportunity to vote. 



President Pea'body: If there are no objections, then, we 

 will first have the report of the committee on membership re- 

 garding the names presented. 



Secretary Whitaker: I move that the gentlemen whose 

 names have been presented be elected to membership. 



The motion was duty seconded and was unanimously carried. 



President Peabody: The question is now on the adoption 

 of the report of the committee on location for next year. 



Mr. Clark: Mr. Chairman. I am heartily in accord with the 

 views of those who have made this report, but I can not let it 

 pass without calling to the minds of the members the partial 

 promise we gave our friends from Wisconsin last year at 

 Omaha. They were very much in favor of our coming there 

 this year, and the members who were in attendance gave them 



