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Mr. Barber: I want to say to the members of the American 

 Fisheries Society that it was indeed a pleasure to your president of 

 the past year and to his associates of the Conservation Commission 

 of Wisconsin to have had the privilege of entertaining this Society, 

 and we sincerely hope you will go back to your homes with pleasant 

 recollections of your visit here. 



Mr. Leach : I think the m.embers of the Society have enjoyed 

 Madison very much, and on behalf of the Society I wish to thank 

 the Wisconsin Fish and Game Commission for their very elaborate 

 and generous entertainment of the members during our stay in this 

 city. 



Mr. J. N. Cobb: I should have made this announcement on the 

 first day of our meeting, but I overlooked it and Mr. Barber failed 

 to remind me of it. Most of you will remember that in 1914 we 

 organized the Pacific Fisheries Society, modeled after the American 

 Fisheries Society, and established because we are so far away from 

 the scene of operations that we are but rarely able to attend its 

 meetings, only one of which has ever been held on the Pacific 

 Coast. Our local society covers the States of California, Oregon, 

 Washington, Montana, Idaho and Utah, and the Province of British 

 Columbia. At the meeting held on August 24, they elected me for 

 the second time President of the Society, and I was instructed to 

 extend the heartiest greetings of our Society to the American Fish- 

 eries Society. We feel sure that the especially cordial relations 

 that have existed between us in the past will continue in the future. 



Mr. Barber; Mr. Henry O'Malley, who has recently been 

 appointed United States Commissioner of Fisheries is here, and I 

 am sure we would all like to hear from him. 



Mr. O'MaelEy; Mr. President and members of the American 

 Fisheries Society: I am very glad indeed to have the opportunity 

 of being present at this meeting, even if it is only during the closing 

 hours. I am very sorry I could not be here throughout the entire 

 session. I have been making a trip through the south and to the 

 west coast, taking up matters in which the Bureau is interested, and 

 I am now on my way back to Washington. 



I feel that these meetings bring closer cooperation between the 

 State fisheries and the Bureau; it is very important that there be 

 tTie closest harmony. In other words, I feel like the Irishman when 

 he was commenting upon the aeroplane. Pat and Mike were walk- 

 ing along together and there was an aeroplane overhead. Pat said 



