CONTENTS 



Business Sessions: 



Registered Attendance 13 



New Members 14 



Address of President 17 



Committees Appointed : 



Auditing Treasurer's Report 20 



Fortieth Anniversary 36 



Nomination of Officers 20 



Publication 47 



Time and Place of Meeting 21 



Report of the Treasurer 19 



Fortieth Anniversary Celebration 26,36 



Report of the Executive Committee 31 



Election of Officers 39 



Report of Committee on Resolutions 44, 57 



Remarks of Newly Elected Off.cers 50 



International Fisheries Commission 53 



Deceased Members 59 



Memorial of George F. Peabody 61 



Papers and Discussions : 



A Plea for the Systematic Study of Fish Diseases. By Tarleton 



H. Bean 65 



The Fishery Census of 1908. By Charles H. Stevenson 79 



Experiments in Sturgeon Culture. By VV. E. Meehan 85 



Notes on the Increase in Size of Fish Ova after Water Harden- 

 ing. By Ward T. Bower 92 



Notes on the Yellow Bass. By Cliarles W. Burnham 103 



