46 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
eries of Rhode Island held this tenth day of September, 1903, the 
attention of the commissioners was called to the fact of the death 
of General KE. E. Bryant on the tenth day of August, A. D. 1903, 
it was unanimously resolved that the following minute be spread 
on our records and that a copy of the same be sent to the family 
of the late General E. E. Bryant. 
We knew General E. E. Bryant from an acquaintance formed 
at four annual meetings of the American Fisheries Society. We 
regarded him as easily the peer of any of the members of that 
society of able men. 
We learned to regard him as a personal friend. 
We loved him. 
The different associations and societies of which he was a 
member must feel that they have lost a strong man. 
Words are inadequate to express our heartfelt sympathy for 
his family which we hereby extend, in this their great bereave- 
ment. Henry T. Root, President. 
WiLLiamM P. Moron, Seeretary. 
In my years of close association with the General I had grown 
to love him, as did all who came in contact with his simple kindly 
nature. ‘There was no bitterness in his soul, cheerful always. 
His never failing humor lightened every hour spent in his com- 
pany. 
I cannot do better in speaking of the General than to draw 
from the eulogy paid General Bryant by ex-Senator and ex- 
Postmaster General William F. Vilas, at a memorial service held 
at the Fuller opera house, Madison, Wis., last May, nearly a year 
after his death. All that was then said I would say, aye, more of 
my dear friend. ; 
Here in the presence of a thousand people who had gathered 
to do honor to General Bryant, his former law partner and neigh- 
bor for thirty years, Senator Vilas, paid a tribute of which few 
men are worthy. I shall make a few extracts from this eulogy, 
one of the truest, finest, and most beautiful tributes ever paid 
a worthy man. 
In the Fuller opera house Sunday afternoon, May 29, 1904, 
Senator William F. Vilas paid a beautiful and appreciative trib- 
ute to his intimate friend of thirty years, the late General E. E. 
