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Agreeable to your resolution of last meeting, I notified 
the Commissioners of Fisheries of each State in the Union 
that they had been elected members of the Society, by vir- 
tue of the offices they held. In my letter I requested that 
they answer my communication, accepting or declining 
membership. The answers received were all favorable, 
and every Fish Commissioner of the United States is now 
a member of the American Fisheries Society. 
Circulars were also sent out liberally to all persons in- 
terested in fish and game, but the responses were but 
few. It is very desirable that the membership of the So- 
ciety shall be increased, and means to that end should be 
at once taken. As the membership of the Society grows 
larger, the circle of its influence will widen, and the sphere 
of its usefulness extend. It can be made the most im- 
portant factor in the advancement of fish and game inter- 
ests of the country. 
EDWARD P. DOYLE, 
Secretary. 
On motion, the report was received and referred to a 
special committee of three, to be appointed by the Presi- 
dent, with full power to act in the premises. The Presi- 
dent appointed as such Committee Dr. H. H. Cary, of 
Georgia, John Gay, of Pennsylvania, and J. E. Gunckel, 
of Ohio. 
The reading of papers then began. The first paper read 
was by Fred Mather, Superintendent of the Cold Spring 
Harbor Station of the New York Fish Commission, and was 
entitled ‘‘ What we Know About Lobsters.’’ The discus- 
sion aroused by this and subsequent papers will be found 
printed in the Appendix to the report. The next paper 
was by J. D. Quackenbos, A.M., M.D., on the Sunapee 
Saibling. Thenext paper was by Hon. Hoyt Post, of Mich- 
igan, entitled ‘‘An Historical Review of Fish Culture in 
Michigan.’ Prof. Jacob Reighard then read a paper en- 
titled ‘‘ Handling of Adhesive Eggs.’’? A paper by W. 
