6 CONTENTS 



Pac* 

 Officers 3 



List of past presidents and places of meeting 4 



Certificate of incorporation 5 



Part I — Business Sessions 



Registered attendance 9 



New members 10 



Appointment of committees 12 



Report of Treasurer 12 



Report of Executive Secretary 14 



Reports of Vice-Presidents of divisions 15 



Report of Auditing Committee - — 17 



Report of Committee on Time and Place of Meeting 17 



Report of Committee on Awards 19 



Report of Committee on Resolutions 21 



Report of Committee on Nominations 25 



In Memoriam 31 



Part II — Papers and Discussions 



Investigations in the Preservation of Fish Nets and Lines. Harden P. 



Taylor and Arthur W. Wells 35 



Octomitus Salmonis, a New Species of Intestinal Parasite in Trout. 



Emmeline Moore 74 



A New and Practical Device for Transporting Live Fish. Edgar C. 



Fearnow 98 



The Plankton of the Lakes. B. A. Birge 118 



Adjustment of Environment vs. Stocking — To Increase the Productivity 



of Fish Life. Ernest Clive Brown 131 



Protecting Migrating Pacific Salmon. John N. Cobb 146 



Irrigation Canals as an Aid to Fisheries Development in the West. 



E. E. Prince 157 



Pollution of Inland Streams. M. D. Hart 166 



The Maskinonge: A Question of Priority in Nomenclature. E. T. D. 



Chambers l'''! 



The Biological Significance of the Smolt Period in Certain Salmonoids. 



William M. Keil 178 



Brief Notes on Fish Culture in Michigan. Dwight Lydell 184 



Fish-Cultural Work of the Bureau of Fisheries in the Mississippi Val- 

 ley. C. P. Culler 186 



Problems of the Commercial Fisheries from Producer to Consumer. 



/. H. Matthews 193 



Oysters : The World's Most Valuable Seafood. H. W. Vickers 201 



Commercial Fisheries. Charles E. Wheeler 206 



The Problem of Marine Fish Culture. C. M. Breder, Jr 210 



Preliminary Report on the Toxicity of Colloidal Sulphur to Fish. Chuki- 



chi Harukawa 219 



Biological Surveys and Investigations in Minnesota. Thaddeus Surber— 225 



List of Members 239 



Constitution 254 



