18 Thirhj-sixth Annual ]\feefing 



I'cniisylvania is cspcciiilly int^Tcstcd in liavinii' you licrc, ho- 

 caiise Pennsylvania is ('s|iccially inlci-cslcd in ]ia\in,i;- an\- one 

 come into Pennsylvania for any piwposc whatever, and, si'condly, 

 beeause we are espeeially interested in tlie propagation of fish. 

 Pennsylvania was one of the vei-y first to engage in that great 

 work, as early as LSC);. and it has steadily worked and tried to 

 keep prominently in the work, and it is considered so important 

 to-day that the legislature of the state has made a department of 

 it and established a cabinet position as the head of it, and we are 

 trying to do good work, and we think we are doing successful 

 work. We are trying to learn all we can, and if there is anything 

 that we can teach you, we are glad to do it. 



Gentlemen, 1 welcome you again on behalf of the state. 

 (Applause.) 



President : I express the thanks of the society for your kind 

 words of welcome. We are glad to meet in Pennsylvania. We 

 know the record of the state in the matter of the propagation of 

 fish, and we know that you were one of the first states to engage 

 in the work forty years ago. It is a long time. The propaga- 

 tion of fish is a very different thing to-day from what it was in 

 1867, when the state of Pennsylvania first took it up. And to 

 Pennsylvania, perhaps as much as to any of the states of the 

 union, is due the position which that industry holds in the com- 

 monwealths of this country to-day. 



I thank you for your words of welcome. (Ai)plause.) 



President: I believe the next thing on the program is to 

 adjourn for lunch, unless there is some other business. 



Mr. Frank N^. Clark : Mr. President, I do not think it pro- 

 vides in our general order of business for the President to ap- 

 point a committee on program. If it does not, I think we should 

 have such a committee. Of course I understand the local re- 

 ception conunittee have a ])rogram, but you will call to mind that 

 we alwa\s have to have o;u' own i)rogram conunittee to arrange' 

 how the iia])ers shall be taken up. I think that committee should 

 be appointed before we adjourn, because we have business to do 

 as well as pleasure. 



President: 1 will ai»))oint on this committee Mr. Frank N. 



