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President: Voii are aware, of course, that the American 

 Fish Cnhurists' Association, now the American Fisheries 

 Society, was founded in 1870. chiefly through the instru- 

 mentahty of Livingston Stone, a revered member of this 

 Society, and that Mr. Stone was ably seconded in New 

 York l)y Robert B. Roosevelt, one of the first fish com- 

 missioners of the State of New York. The meeting took 

 place in New A^ork, and it would therefore seem to be his- 

 torically interesting if the fortieth anniversar}- meeting 

 cinild also be held in New A'ork. 



Mr. Clark: Is the next our fortieth meeting? I think 

 that this is the thirty-eighth. The program so states. 



President: The Society was organized in 1870 during 

 the same year that there came into existence the Deutscher 

 h^ischerei Verein, and just the year before the United States 

 Fish Commission was established. That is what I find in 

 the records, not in our records, but in the general records 

 of the history of fish culture. If I am wrong I should be 

 glad to be corrected, but if that be true, as I believe it is, 

 because it is published in the state reports of New York, 

 published also by Mr. Clark in his review of fish culture, 

 in the Manual of Fish Culture, and elsewhere — in fact, 

 you can find it in almost any historical account of the be- 

 ginnings of fish culture in the United States — if that be 

 true, 1910 wnll be our fortieth anniversary, and it remains 

 for the committee to consider these matters and to decide 

 whether New York be named as the place of meeting. 



Mr. Clark : Do we understand that the committee on 

 time and place of meeting shall take this matter up also? 



President : No ; I would like to ha^'e a motion to appoint 

 a special committee. 



Mr. Clark : I move that a committee such as Dr. Smith 

 suggested be appointed. 



Mr. hTTLLERTON : We should revise our records. Our 

 notice savs this is the thirty-eighth meeting. The matter 

 should be set right. 



