22 American Fisheries Society. 



Retiring President Leach : I will second that, with the 

 provision also, I suggest, that a copy be sent to the President 

 of the Isaak Walton League. 



The motion was agreed to. 



Mr. Follett: Is it the intention of the Game Commis- 

 sioners to take up this question of the drainage of the upper 

 Mississippi? 



Mr. Adams: Yes. I do not know of any project in the 

 United States to-day that is of greater importance than the 

 protecting of the breeding grounds on the upper Mississippi 

 River. I personally have already written to President Coolidge 

 about this matter, and I think that every man in this room 

 ought to do the same thing. We ought to do everything in our 

 power to uphold the Isaak Walton League in initiating this 

 legislation. 



Mr. Lawyer: I may say that the War Department has 

 approved of that project only from the engineering standpoint. 



Mr. Culler: But without that approval the project could 

 not go through. 



Mr. Lawyer: I am not so sure about that. I had that 

 out at one time with some of the officials of the War Depart- 

 ment, and my understanding was that they were simply asked 

 to give their advice on the advisability of the question. 



Retiring President Leach : I move that we adjourn. 



Mr. John P. Woods: Mr. President, before we adjourn 

 I think we ought to express our deep appreciation of the effi- 

 cient services rendered by Mr. Leach during the past year. I 

 think it is appropriate that we should indicate our feeling in 

 that respect by a rising vote. 



The motion was seconded and carried by a rising vote. 



The motion for adjournment was seconded and agreed to, 

 whereupon the Fiifty-Third Annual Meeting of the American 

 Fisheries Society adjourned sine die. 



