32 Tliirty-iiiiilh Aiuiual Meeting 



TIr' ciininiittec was advised l)y Dr. Hugh AI. Smith and the president 

 tliat Mr. Charles H. Stevenson, of Wasliington, had suggested the estah- 

 lishment by the Society of a fund, tlie interest of which should be used 

 for procuring a medal or giving a cash prize periodically to the person 

 making the greatest achievement in fish-cultural work or the greatest 

 achievement along such lines. The committee unanimously recommend 

 that should any moneys be contributed for that purpose they be accepted 

 and that such moneys be set apart and invested for the purposes sug- 

 gested. During the discussion on this important subject -the question 

 arose as to whether or not the American Fisheries Society is an incor- 

 porated 1)ody, and if not, whetlier sncli a fund could be properly created 

 and esta1)lishcd. This committee, therefore, strongly recommends that 

 if the American Fisheries Society is not incorporated steps be taken for 

 inc()ri)oration, and a fund of the character named established as soon as 

 possible. 



The committee reports witli sorrow the deatli of the following mem- 

 bers : 



Walter L. Powell, Harrisburg, Pa., in March, 1907. Mr. Powell was 

 one of the early members of the Pennsylvania Fish Conmiission and for 

 several years was its treasurer. 



Westley S. Henry, Park Side, Pa., in September, 1908. Mr. Henry 

 was a member of the Paradise Valley Brook Company, and its treasurer. 

 He was also well known throughout Pennsylvania as the proprietor of 

 a large hotel in A ion roe County, the headquarters of thousands of 

 anglers of Pennsylvania ami New York. 



Redfield Proctor, United States Senator from Vermont, on March 

 4, 1908. 



R. D. Hume, San Francisco, Cal., in November, 1908. Air. Hume 

 was one of the pioneer fish culturists on the Pacific coast. It was he 

 who demonstrated the practicalnlity of artificially propagating salmon on 

 the Rogue River. 



A. Starbuck, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1908. Air. Starbuck was well known 

 in Oliio as a propagator of gold fish. 



L. D. Huntington, New Rochelle, New York, in April, 1909. Mr. 

 Huntington was president of the Society in 1895-6. 



The executive committee reconnnends that the above names ])e sent 

 to the committee on resolutions for suitable action. 



On motion duly seconded the report of the execuli\e 

 committee was adopted. 



Mr. Meehan : I wish to make some remai-ks with refer- 

 ence to the question of the incorporation of the society and 

 with reference to this fund, more than could l)e ])ut in a 

 report of that kind. Whether you decide that it shall come 

 up later or come up now, I should at some time like to speak 

 on the (juestion. 



