2^ Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting 



FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. 



President: The announcement can be made at the after- 

 noon session, if that will be convenient. 



There is a matter I would like to bring to your attention 

 now, and that is the communication from Dr. H. M. 

 Smith, Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries, dated 

 July 22. The communication is as follows : 



The American Fisheries Society will soon reach the fortieth anniver- 

 sary of its establishment, and it would seem proper that some recog- 

 nition be made of this occasion and that a special program be arranged 

 for an appropriate annual meeting. 



If the matter seems to you to be feasible, will you please bring it to 

 the attention of the Society for such action as it deems proper? I would 

 suggest the appointment of a Fortieth Anniversary Committee, with full 

 powers to determine the program and special exercises for that meeting, 

 to solicit funds, and to do all other things that arc considered necessary, 

 provided the Society is involved in no unautliorized linancial obligations. 



Mr. Frank N. Clark: I move that such committee be 

 appointed. 



President: The committee on time and place of meeting- 

 consists of Mr. Meehan, Mr. Clark and Mr. Frank M. 

 Miller. With this communication before me, and witli 

 another, from the director of the New York Aquarium, I 

 shall be glad if they will discuss the whole subject. Air. 

 Townsend's letter, dated July 23, is as follows: 



It is fourteen years since there has been a meeting of the .American 

 Fisheries Society in New York City, where a meeting was held in the 

 New York .Aquarium on June 12, 1895. 



I hereby extend an invitation to tlie .Vnierican iMsheries Society to 

 make its next place of meeting in The Aquarium. 



I feel sure that the New York Zoological Society, tlic Museum n\ 

 Natural History, and the city and state angling associations will lie 

 interested in the matter and that a meeting in New York can lie made 

 interesting to the members. 



Hoping that you may ])e willing to reconnnend this proposal to your 

 committee, I remain, etc. 



