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eries, will preside, will l)o held in the hall of the JN'ational Geo- 

 graphic Society, Sixteenth and M streets, A^. W. Hon Oscar S. 

 Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, will deliver an ad- 

 dress of welcome on behalf of the United States Government; 

 Hon. Henry L. West, Commissioner of the District of Columbia, 

 will welcome the members to the city of Washington; and Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, President of the American Fisheries Society, 

 will extend a greeting on behalf of the society. A response in 

 tlie lunne of the foreign nieml)ers will l)e made hy Dr. P. 

 P. (*. Hoek, Scientific Fishery Adviser of the Dutch Govern- 

 ment. 



All members of the American Fisiu-ries Society are invited 

 to l)ecome memljevs of the International Fishery CongTess and to 

 partake in the discussions. Application for membershij:) may be 

 made to ]Mr. Frank M. Clark or to Mr. Ward Bower. The pro- 

 gram for the International Congress is one that extends through 

 the week until Friday night and continues on Monday of next 

 week in Xew York, on Tuesday in Xarragansett Bay, Wednes- 

 day in Woods Hole, Thursday in Boston, and Friday and Satur- 

 day in Gloucester. The program l)oth in Washington for this 

 week and outside of Washington for next week is an exceedingly 

 interesting one, and I think that the memljers of the .American 

 Fisheries Society Avill without excejition identify themselves with 

 this important gatliering. 



President: I would like to su])])lement Dr. Bumpus" re- 

 marks by saying that the foreign delegates to the International 

 Fisheries Congress, and other members of the congress also will 

 please assemble in the dii)lomatic room at the state department 

 at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow. There they will l)e received by the 

 Secretary of State, and will ])roeeed thence to the meeting hall, 

 where the opening meeting will be held at 10 :30 o'clock instead 

 of 10 o'clock. I may say that the programs in detail for the 

 meetings of the International Congress will be distributed here 

 and at the headquarters at the Xew Willard Hotel, this after- 

 noon. 



]\Ir. Titcomb : In \iew of the fact that there are some here 

 who desire to join the American Fisheries Societv, would it not 

 be well to elect those who have already made application and 

 have them registered? 



