68 Tliirty-d.iih Animal Meeting 



\\. Ohscrviitioiis on the s]);i\vning season of rainbow- 

 trout . 

 i. The value of fish as food. 



7. International organization of hiologieal research, and the 

 fundamental |)rinciples governing tlie erection of biological sta- 

 tions. 



8. Fishculture: 



a. Cultivation of freshwater fishes in open waters, 



b'. Pond-cultnre. 



c. Cultivation of sea-fishes. 



d. Cultivation of crawfish. 



e. Cultivation of oysters. 



f. Cultivation of ornamental fishes. 



g. Fishways. 



h. The introduction of foreign species of fish, 

 i. Cultivation of fishes and other water-products in 

 Japan. 

 9. Diseases of fish. 



10. The crawfish pest. 



11. Instruction in fishery matters. 



12. The training of professional fishermen. 



13. Scheme for the organization of professional fishermen. 



14. Societies in the fish trade. 



15. Transportation. 



16. The fish trade: 



a. Means of increasing consumption. 



b. Regulation of markets. 



17. Use and abuse of the drag-net in small bays. 



18. Sport-fishing in its relation to commercial fishing, fish- 

 ery economy, political economy, popular recreation and popular 

 education. 



19. Motion introduced by delegate Dr. Fankhauser of 

 Switzerland relative to the collection and publication of inter- 

 national annual statistics of the catch of salmon in the Rhine 

 and other rivers tributary to the North Sea and the Baltic. 



The ri'port of these transactions forms a volume of over 400 

 octavo pages and constitutes an exceedingly valuable contribu- 

 tion to the literature of fish and especially of fishculture. With 



