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the world is to get fish, the better way is to stay at home and go 
to the market and buy them; if he wants to get a new life, and 
look upon life in a different way; if he wants to get—what is it, 
doctor the urie acid ? 
Dr. Johnson: The uric acid. (Laughter.) 
Mr. Joslin: If he wants to get the uric acid out of his 
blood, let him go into the woods and see the beauty that is 
around him; and perhaps each day that he stays in the woods let 
him fish an hour or two hours, and then he returns home him- 
self an educator, himself a protector of the game and of the fish. 
Now I take it that that is the life work which you gentlemen are 
really engaged in. You are educating the people to know that 
they have all around them the means of subsistence, the means 
of pleasure, which will last forever if they will only protect it. 
Gentlemen, I thank you again for the honor which you have 
conferred upon me. (Great applause.) , 
President: I want to assure Mr. Root that the burdens of 
the office are not very heavy, (until of course you get here and 
then for a day or two there is something to do) for the reason 
that you have a secretary and treasurer who do all the work— 
just shift your burdens on them. (Laughter. ) 
Mr. Meehan: I would like to offer a resolution bearing 
somewhat on the business we have just had in hand, and it is as 
follows: Resolved that there be appointed by the chair a stand- 
ing committee of five on foreign relations, one member of which 
shall be the corresponding secretary of the society, whose duty 
it shall be to keep informed on the progress of fish culture, fish 
protection, and general fishery work in foreign countries, and 
to make reports to the society at each annual meeting. 
Further resolved that the corresponding secretary be the 
chairman of this committee, and that he be authorized and re- 
quested to enter into and maintain close relations with the lead- 
ing fishery authorities of other countries. 
Mr. Peabody: I support the resolution and move that it be 
referred to the committee on resolutions. 
President: It will be so referred. 
