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President: We will now receive the reports of standing 
committees, and first the executive committee. 
Mr. Meehan: I shall have to hand in the report in writing 
a little later to the committee, but I can give it to you verbally. 
I could not give it in writing before because some of the data 
had not been handed to me until this morning. I have to report 
that during the year there were seven deaths in the membership 
reported to either the treasurer or myself. 
W. Osborne of Duluth, Minnesota, who died April 1. 1905. 
W. E. Robinson of Mackinaw City, Michigan, who died in 
1905. 
E. St. George Tucker, who died in Halifax in 1904. 
J. C. Willetts, New York City, who died August 31, 1905. 
Judge Uri Lamprey, St. Paul, Minnesota, May, 1906. 
Robert B. Roosevelt, New York, June, 1906. 
Charles lL. Miller, Altoona, Pa., Oct. 21, 1905. 
Charles Walters, Jr., Philadelphia, Oct. 13, 1905. 
Henry C. Demuth, Lancaster, Pa., May 30, 1906. 
Mr. Demuth was for many years connected with the fishery 
interests of Pennsylvania, having been the treasurer of the old 
fish commission for seven years, and was a co-laborer on the 
board with the late Henry C. Ford whom we all knew as promi- 
nent in the fish cultural work of Pennsylvania between 1880 and 
1895. 
I also have to report that another and great step has been 
taken toward securing practically uniform laws for the protec- 
tion of fish in Lake Erie, Ohio, having passed last winter laws 
practically the same as Pennsylvania did the year before. A bill 
was introduced into the New York legislature—I heard inform- 
ally that it has passed—but apparently it has not, at least Mr. 
Whish informs me that he does not know positively that it has 

been passed. Canada, of course, does not need to enact special 
legislation but will adopt similar regulations as soon as all the 
states bordering on Lake Erie adopt practically uniform laws. 
We have also had some correspondence in connection with the 
International Fisheries Society, but that matter is largely in the 
hands of Dr. Smith. 
