12 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
which your chairman thinks should receive more attention by 
both state and national authorities: that of food for these two 
billion of living, swimming, helpless fry. More attention should 
also be given to controlling the refuse matter that is polluting 
the waters and destroying not alone the fry but the feeding and 
spawning grounds of both fry and adults. 
It will be remembered by the members present at our last 
meeting that the time and place for this annual meeting was left 
to a committee composed of the president, vice-president and 
secretary. This committee met in Chicago on January 15th 
and after carefully considering the numerous invitations Atlantic 
City was unanimously selected and you are now assembled at the 
33d annual meeting of the society, and your chairman trusts we 
will have a very successful meeting both im a business and social 
way. 
Again I wish to express my appreciation of the very dis- 
tinguished honor you conferred on me one year ago by electing 
me president of your society. 
That we may not be longer detaimed, as our programme for 
the three days is full to overflowing with interesting and in- 
structive papers and discussions, and that we may give them our 
best attention and endeavors, your chairman will ask, what is 
the pleasure of the meeting ? 
We will now hsten to the report of the secretary. 
Secretary: If there are any of you who have not already 
received the report of the secretary in printed form, 1 should be 
pleased to deliver it to you. The printed volume of transactions 
constitutes the report of the secretary. I might add however, 
that the duties of the secretary have been very much lightened 
by the helpful work of the committees and all members who have 
had opportunity to lend their aid. The president and treasurer 
have come in closest contact with the secretary and have in every 
instance been helpful and done all that they could to hghten the 
burdens of the secretary. 
(Report of secretary adopted. ) 
Report of treasurer and reports of standing committees 
passed for the present. 
