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be furnished with some of these cans and given an opportunity to try them 

 and report the results of that test to this Committee within three months, 

 the Committee on Awards to have authority then to determine whether 

 the paper is entitled to a prize, based upon the reports of the tests. 



No. 2. "For the best contribution on biological investigations ap- 

 plied to fish-cultural problems," your Committee has decided that Dr. 

 Emmeline Moore, the author of the paper on "Octomitus Salmonis, a New 

 Species of Intestinal Parasite in Trout," is entitled to a prize. This paper 

 has the special merit not only of adding new and important data to our 

 meagre knowledge of fish pathology, but also of suggesting in a constructive 

 way lines of further advance in the study of hatchery diseases. 



Another paper presented is by W. M. Keil, entitled, "Biological 

 Significance of the Smolt Period in Certain Salmonoids." It is a very 

 interesting paper and the Committee feels that it should have honorable 

 mention. Mr. Keil has reached the conclusion, through actual tests of 

 planting landlocked salmon which he has been raising through successive 

 generations in the hatchery, that they should not be planted for stocking 

 our lakes and ponds until they have been carried a year. This same 

 conclusion has been reached by the Commissioner of Maine, who has so 

 much to do with salmon; and it was also the conclusion in the Lake 

 George report, to which Dr. Birge referred. But Mn Keil has shown 

 the results from planting in a series of years the smaller sizes of salmon, 

 with the returns in the catch on a certain lake; then he brings out the 

 fact that after planting these larger fish they got a fifty per cent return 

 in the catch of fish by anglers on that lake. 



No. 3. "For the best contribution dealing with problems of the com- 

 mercial fisheries." The paper on "Investigations in the Preservation of 

 Fish Nets and Lines," by Harden F. Taylor and Arthur W Wells, excites 

 the especial interest of the Committee. The tests of netting twine under 

 various conditions have been thorough and exhaustive and show the per- 

 severance and ingenuity of the authors; and we feel that they are entitled 

 to an award. 



Another paper, presented by Mr. J, H. Matthews, entitled, "Problems 

 of the Commercial Fisheries from Producer to Consumer," is a general 

 article on the subject, contains nothing particularly original, but is the 

 type of paper that would make a suitable editorial in the commercial 

 fishing papers, like the Fishing Gazette or the Atlantic Fisherman. 



Your Committee respectfully recommends that this practice of award- 

 ing prizes, under the same conditions as of this year, be continued; and 

 if the Society decides to carry out that policy it is further recommended 

 that the circulars be issued to all members as quickly as possible. Some 

 of these studies and investigations require a year's work, and we cannot 

 too soon have the knowledge that the policy is to be continued sent out 

 to all the members. 



Mr. Mii.IvE:tt: I make the suggestion that future papers of- 

 fered for award to this Society be entirely original in the sense 

 that they have not been previously printed or compensated for 



