40 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
ing, I asked if we could not make this still better. I do not 
want to say that it has been made better, but it does seem to me 
that it has been a grand meeting. Here it is almost impossible 
to close up our work in three days. I, as well undoubtedly as 
some of the older members, Dr. Henshall, Dr. Bean and some 
others, can remember the time when we had a hard job to keep 
the thing going one day, and we had to meet a little while and 
adjourn, but we cannot find time to have any fun here, and I 
predict in the very near future we will certainly have to have four 
days session instead of three. Our membership is growing and 
the American Fisheries Society is certainly growing, and I ap- 
preciate it greatly to think I have had the pleasure, and it has 
been a pleasure, of presiding at this meeting. I hope I have 
done fairly well and I now, after the adjournment of this meet- 
ing will take pleasure in stepping down on the floor with the 
ex’s and try to have some fun in the argument. The only thing 
here that has bothered me has been to keep my chair. It has 
been impossible for me to do so all the time, as you have seen, 
but I should have hkecd to take part in the argument and discus- 
sion of every paper. I thank you gentlemen. 
Mr. Titecomb: I do not know but what I am going to take 
up a lot of time, if you take the question up, but there is a 
standing committee that has not been discharged, on the ques- 
tion of the size of fish, and what they shall be called, fry, finger- 
lings, yearlings, ete. 
President: The two members of the committee that were 
here, had a little talk (Mr. Seymour Bower and the President) 
and I suggested that we ask that the committee be continued and 
report next year because Mr. Ravenel had written me that he 
would lke to hear from Mr. Bower and me, and then he would 
give his views. He did not ask us to close the matter up. [ 
would therefore ask that this committee be continued. 
President: It has occurred to me all through this meeting, 
because the reporters have run to me and run to the secretary, 
treasurer, and the individual members, that this society should 
have in the future, some one to act as a press secretary. Our 
newspapers do not get the report as they should. They give al- 
together too much of one thing and not enough of another. Now 
