76 TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



tions to be made hj me in October, I am going to ask for 

 twenty-five thousand dollars, and yet, on the other hand, if 

 some of the representatives on the great lakes should ask for an 

 appropriation for the establishment of a laboratory, it might 

 possibly be got through in addition to the appropriation for 

 scientific inquiry. 



Mr. Clark: Special, do you mean? 



Mr. Bowers: It would go in the sundry civil bill, you un- 

 derstand. It would be necessary to have a resolution passed 

 authorizing the Commissioner to make the requisite investiga- 

 tion to determine on the location, and, really, w^e should have 

 two laboratories, one on the coast of Florida and one on the 

 Great Lakes. 



Mr. Reighard: The sum you speak of, fifteen thousand, is 

 the total available? 



Mr. Bowers: For all purposes. At present we are running 

 virtually three laboratories out of fifteen thousand dollars; 

 one at Woods Hole, one at Beaufort, North Carolina, and one at 

 Putin-Bay. The amount is fixed by Congress. The statis- 

 tical inquiry is given five thousand, whilst propagation and 

 fish culture is given one hundred and fifty thousand. Of 

 course, we have thirty or thirty-five stations to operate with 

 that, and expenses of all kinds must be paid from that source. 



This paper of Professor Reighard's gives some valuable 

 information that would be useful to our commission, and 

 I suggest, in view of the fact that it would be necessary to 

 make a recommendation to the Secretary of the Treasury by 

 the first of October, that I be furnished with a copy of his paper 

 at the earliest possible moment. 



Mr. Clark: I would suggest, that as soon as it comes to the 

 Secretary's hands, he have a typewritten copy made and send 

 it to the Commissioner. Ordinarily it has been the policy of the 

 Society not to give out papers, but in this case the circum- 

 stances are different. 



Mr. Bowers: I assure you I shall do everything in my power 

 to bring about the recommendations made in Professor 

 Reighard's paper. I am just as anxious to have a laboratory 

 on the Great Lakes as any individual member of the American 

 Fisheries Society, and you shall have my active co-operation 

 and the support of the Fish Commission in these matters. 



Mr. Parker: I suppose the paper read is a document of the 

 Society, and I would move that it is the sense of the meeting 

 that a copy be type-written and forwarded to the Commissioner 

 of Fisheries; that the Secretary be authorized to have such a 

 copy made. 



The motion was duly seconded and carried. 



Secretary Whitaker then read the following paper by Mr. 

 Fred Mather: 



