28 T-a'ciify-jiiiith Annual Meeting 



would tend to turn everything into the leading fish journals, in- 

 stead of leaving the author at liberty to get a little more pub- 

 licity. 



The Chair then put the question on the amendment of 

 Mr. Clark, which was lost by a close vote. The original mo- 

 tion was then carried. 



The President: I have been informed that Mr. Wood, Su- 

 perintendent of the Plymouth Rock Trout Co., is ready to read 

 his paper and desires to give it this afternoon, and I take it to 

 be your pleasure that his be the first paper to be read. 



I am happy to say that our Treasurer has arrived and will 

 soon be ready to present his report. 



I would like to inquire if there are any other members who 

 would like to have their papers put ahead of others, that is, who 

 are desirous of getting ofif early ; this inquiry can be answered 

 at any time, eitlier to me or to the Secretary- during the day. so 

 that the work will run along as rapidly as possible. 



Is there any further business 'before this meeting? I want 

 to dispose of one more matter. The Secretary informs us he 

 has a lot of l)ack copies of our annual reports. They are valuable 

 and we have applications for them from new members and others. 

 I suppose it is simply a question of whether we give them away 

 to those who come in at the eleventh hour or have them pay for 

 the actual cost of the publication. Our treasury is not very 

 flush with the present annual dues of only one dollar a year. 



The Secretar}- : The plan that I Have followed during the 

 past year was to send out the reports, as far as I could, to any 

 meml:)er of the Society who applied for them. The reports of 

 '92 are practically exhausted. In some cases I prepaid the post- 

 age and sometimes when the package was large I sent by ex- 

 press, charges collect. I think in that way there were over 100 

 back reports disposed of during the past year. I think if it were 

 generally understood that these reports are available they would 

 be more generally applied for. 



Mr. Clark: I would like to ask if it is understood that a 



