American Fisheries Society. 23 



1907. 



Jan. 8 — 1000 blank receipts 3.00 



Jan. 17 — Geo. F. Peabody, Sec'y, reports 315.55 



Feb. 10 — H. D. Goodwin, stenograplier 175.35 



Apr. 18 — Emma L. Scheffler, stenographer 25.00 



May 28 — Stamped envelopes 10.70 



July 20 — Telegram, to secretary 60 



July 23 — Geo. F. Peabody, Sec'y, postage and circulars 45.16 



$618.84 

 July 23 — Balance cash on hand 131.32 



$750.16 

 Respectfully submitted, 



C. W. WILLARD, Treasurer. 



Treasurer : Mr. President and gentlemen, it is certainly a 

 source of great satisfaction to your treasurer, and 1 sup]3ose to 

 all of you, that for the first time since 1902 we are able to show 

 a balance on the right side of the ledger. 



President : The report will be received. I will appoint Mr. 

 C. K. Green, of Xew York, Mr. W. P. Morton, of Rhode Island, 

 and Mr. B. D. Evans, of Pennsylvania, auditing committee. 



The remaining committees on nomination and on time and 

 place of next meeting, I will, wdth the permission of the society, 

 delay appointing. A number of our members have not come in, 

 being delayed by the lateness of trains. It seems to me proper 

 to wait for the other members before appointing committees. 



The report of the program committee is in order. 



Mr. Frank N. Clark : The program committee are only able 

 to give a partial report at this time, and ask the indulgence of 

 the association to provide a further report. We find, Mr. Pres- 

 ident and members, that we are afraid that it is going to be al- 

 most impossible to carry our program through of papers, dis- 

 cussions, etc., and business, and try to carry out the program of 

 the committee on entertainment of Erie, but we will do so as 

 far as we can. We now thiidc tliat it would be better to take up 

 this afternoon Mr. Townsend's paper on "The Cultivation of 

 Fishes in Small Ponds," to be read by the secretary, and Mr. 

 Meehan's paper on "The Shad Work on the Delaware River for 

 1907 and Its Lessons," and the paper of Mr. Oregon Milton 

 Dennis, secretary of Maryland State Game and Fish Protective 

 Association on "The Necessity of the State Making Laws for 



