42 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
President: The committee is continued for another year 
with the same salary. (Laughter. ) 
Mr. Fullerton: 4 move that a vote of thanks of this associa- 
tion be tendered to our retiring president, Mr. Joslyn, for his 
eminent ability and fairness and for the courtesy extended to 
each member, during his term of office. 
Motion seconded, put by the secretary and unanimously car- 
ried. 
Mr. Joslyn: I thank you most sincerely for your kind words. 
IT am like the man who had written on his tombstone out west, 
“He done his damndest—angels could do no more.” (Laughter. ) 
Mr. Seymour Bower: At nearly all annual meetings we 
have elected one or more honorary members and there is a 
man in Grand Rapids whose name Mr. Lydell would lke to 
present for that honor. 
Mr. Lydell: I offer the name of Mr. Fred J. Adams of 
Grand Rapids, whose paper is always open to anything we ask 
for, and who has always been ready to do anything he can for 
the interest of the fisheries of the United States. He could not 
be with us today and regrets it. 
Motion made, seconded and unanimously carried that the 
rules be suspended and that the secretary be instructed to cast 
the unanimous ballot of the society electing Mr. Adams as honor- 
ary member. 
So done. 
President: It was suggested that somebody desired to ask 
some questions about this hatchery or the mode of conducting it, 
and if so those questions would be in order now. 
(Questions were asked and the subject discussed. ) 
The committee on resolutions presented the following further 
report: This resolution was offered by Mr. Fullerton. 
Whereas, the members of the American Fisheries Society 
now assembled at Grand Rapids, Michigan, view with alarm the 
threatened depletion of whitefish, lake trout and other fishes in 
the waters and boundary rivers of the Great Lakes; 
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