16 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
out such an excellent report of our proceedings. I think. it is 
one of the most valuable we have ever had. 
Motion seconded and unanimously carried. 
President: There is an old committee appointed some 
years ago to designate the different sizes of fish, which committee 
was to report at this meeting. Mr. Clark was chairman of that 
committee and I will call upon him for a report. 
Mr. Clark: I believe that I was appointed on a committee 
consisting of Mr. Seymour Bower, Mr. Ravanel and myself, to 
consider the advisability of agreeing on a suitable nomenclature 
for bass of various sizes. ‘The question has been up before the 
committee by correspondence since that time. ‘There are but two 
members present but I desire to say that as yet we have not 
been able to come to any agreement on this subject. 
I think the best solution of the matter is this: to call the 
young bass fry until the sac is absorbed. After that time until 
they are 30 days old call them number 1’s. From 30 to 60 
days number 2’s, after that time number 3’s. I think Mr. Bow- 
er’s idea is a reversal of that plan. He would call the young 
bass number 3’s, the middle class, or those 30 days old, or over, 
number 2’s and 60 days or over number 1’s. From that time 
on they are yearlings. 
Mr. Ravanel wishes them called number 1’s after they are 
30 days old, number 2’s after they are 60 days old, and num- 
ber 3’s after they are 90 days old. Now that is as near as the 
committee could get together at the present time. I think for 
the purpose of an easy way to get at it in distributing fish, 
the best way is to adopt the classification of number 1’s, 2’s and 
3’s, for 30, 60 and 90 day fish respectively. That is my idea. 
This idea of calling them fry, baby fingerling and fingerlings, 
is confusing. You cannot tell anything about them. I have up 
in my room small mouth bass that are not to exceed an inch 
long which are 56 days old. I have some there also that are 314 
inches long that are 56 days old. They would be called, under the 
old nomenclature, baby fingerlings and fingerlings. I should 
like to hear from the others on this subject. Maybe Mr. Bower 
has something to say. 
Mr. Seymour Bower: I thought Mr. Clark and I were go- 
