38 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
The report is as follows: 
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT 
Of the Total Output of the Bureau of Fisheries for the Years 
1899 to 1905, Inclusive. 
Year. Eggs. Fish. Total. 
1899) ere arene Rees 64,956,000 991,415,898 1,056,371,898 
9.0 Oia ee ee eea a nance, 88,682,000 1,075,654,754 1,164,336,754 
UO Oilers) Re ea 150,307,251 1,023,526,211 1,173,833,462 
OWS VAR Ra rs eiouah a nak Store 198,672,200 1,296,871,174 1,495,543,374 
LQ OB tee esate roe eee 182,238,373 1,043,819,102 1,226,057,475 
L904 eo eee 263,123,354 1,004,219,671 1,267,343,025 
ADS LU seen ea meee straets hen cata G B95, 912.190 ; 1,298,030,857 1,694,003,562 
President: A vote of the executive committee empowering 
Dr. H. M. Smith to represent this society as a delegate at the 
International Fisheries Association in Vienna was passed, and 
credentials forwarded to him. He did not receive them in time 
to present to the Congress, but nevertheless we regard him as 
our delegate to that international congress. We want to hear 
some report from him, and I will take the liberty of calling on 
Dr. Smith to make a report regarding his visit to the interna- 
tional Congress. 
Dr. H. M. Smith then presented a paper on the subject of 
“The Third International Fisheries Congress.” 
Dr. Smith’s paper was referred to the committee on resolu- 
tions for the purpose of having a suitable resolution prepared 
regarding the acceptance by the International Fisheries Con- 
eress of the invitation to meet in the United States in 1908. 
Mr. Meehan: I would like to have opportunity to express 
on behalf of myself and my associates my heartfelt appreciation 
of the resolution which was adopted by this society. It is a 
pleasure to me, and it is a pleasure to my associates to be present 
and do what we can to further the interests of this society. While 
the Department of Fisheries of Pennsylvania requires its super- 
intendents to be present at these meetings, I wish to say emphat- 
ically that no order is really necessary, for there is not a superin- 
tendent in the employ of the Pennsylvania Department of Fish- 
eries, who, | believe, would not be present of his own volition, 
even if he were not ordered. 
( Applause. ) 

