.Iiiwricait l-islicrlcs Society. -j; 



tarv whether he shall send to the l-'orest i^ Stream or some other 

 publication. 



Mr. Clark: My idea is, that the Secretary shcjuld \\ri;c to 

 '^neh journals and tell ihcm ihat the\- can ha\e any of the i)apers 

 of the Society by payin.q" for a t\]ie\\ ritten copy. 



Dr. lames: M \- idea is, whether the author siial! lu.rnish 

 several copies or only his own individual C()])y. lie nii<;ht fur- 

 nish two copies, and in that case it would only go to one journal. 

 The author might make journal duplicates himself. 



Mr. Clark: The author should have nothing to do with it, 

 slundd not control it after it comes here and become.^ {\\v ])rop- 

 crty of the Society. lUit if one journal is allowed to have the 

 papers, all should have the same privilege: they should be fur- 

 nished by the Society, not by the authors. 



Mr. Ravtnel: What do we gain by tliat? We only add to 

 the work of the Secretary, which is already a labor of love and 

 not pay, and we compel the Society to do this when I thought it 

 was the feeling to leave it optional with the authors. 



The President : If you will excuse the Chair. I would like 

 to say a word on this subject. Cndoubtedly some members of 

 this Society want their papers published. It has been customary 

 for some of them to give their papers to different journals; I 

 know I have given my paper to the Fishing (Gazette. J always 

 make my own copy in dui)licate. It seems to me as to this 1 am 

 readv to do, personally, whatever the Society wishes, but I do not 

 think we can control any member as to his paper. He reads his 

 paper here, and then if he chooses to give it to any journal it is 

 his own business. We have his original, and if he chooses to give 

 a copy of his paper to any journal we cannot control it: he has a 

 right to do so; it is not copyrighted. It seems to me that the 

 present resolution governs that point. 



Mjr. Brvant: Suppose Mr. Xevin writes a paper, and half a 

 dozen newspapers in his State would like to publish it, and they 

 make a recjucst to him for it. The resolution as proposed, it 

 seems to me, is more liberal than the amendment, which wouUl 

 compel thtm to a])ply to the Secretary ami pa\ for a copw That 



