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of reporting progress. Strictly speaking, however, I could see 

 very little progress in the actual work of fish culture. We have 

 made great progress in the indirect work of fish culture ; in that 

 we seem to have a very general understanding as to many of our 

 failings and many of our needs, a consideration which bids fair 

 to make the work much more effective. The fish culturist has 

 been wasting a great proportion of his work by placing the fish 

 under conditions in which they could not live after being liber- 

 ated, and in that respect we have been making an advance 

 during the last year in many of the states and in the Federal 

 work. We have been getting more effective equipment and a 

 better understanding of the needs of the fish in transportation 

 and in planting. We have been getting more help from the 

 scientific men; there is more cooperation, I believe, among the 

 states and between the states and the Federal Government. In 

 other ways also the advance has been great in the past year and 

 promises to be greater in the year to come, because we under- 

 stands our needs and our limitations better than we ever did 

 before. 



Mr. Adams, Division of Protection and Legislation : The year 

 has been given over largely to the consideration of the further 

 protection of migratory fish. This action has taken no definite 

 form. The more we get into the subject the more we find that 

 it is a big one ; and there is not necessarily a conflict of interests, 

 but there is a need for further investigation, for further study, 

 before an adequate report can be made. 



Mr. Woods : I move that these reports be accepted, and con- 

 gratulate the Vice-Presidents upon making them. It is seldom 

 that reports from these Divisions are filed, and as the practice 

 has been initiated, I think it should be followed. 



The Vice-Presidents of the Divisions of Aquatic Biology 

 and Physics, Commercial Fishing, and Angling were not present, 

 and no reports were received. 



No reports were made by the Committees on Foreign Rela- 

 tions and on Relations with National and State Governments. 



A paper entitled, "Protecting Migrating Pacific Salmon," 

 was read by John N. Cobb. Discussion followed. 



A paper was presented by Dwight Lydell entitled "Brief 

 Notes on Fish Culture in Michigan." Discussion followed. 



Dr. E. A. Birge presented a paper under the subject, "The 



