EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 51 
When the meeting was again called to order the Committee 
nominated the following officers, who were duly elected : 
President—RoOBERT B. ROOSEVELT. 
Vice-President—GEORGE SHEPARD PAGE, 
Treasurer —EUGENE G. BLACKFORD. 
Corresponding Secretary—BARNET PHILLIPS. 
Recording Secretary—JAMES ANNIN, JR. 
Lixecutive Committees—FREDERICK MATHER, BENJAMIN L. 
Hewitt, G. Brown GoopE, SAMUEL WiiMmoT, BENJAMIN 
West, THEODORE GILL, and THomas B. FERGUSON. 
No alteration was made in the appointments to the Sections 
as organized last year, and which were as follows: 
SECTION 1. Mr. 8S. Green, | 
Mr. S. Wilmot, Methods in Fish Culture, ete. 
SECTION 2. Mr. C. B. Evarts, 
Mi cls Stone, 
Mr. T. B. Ferguson, 
| ashen Laws and Fishways. 
SECTION 3. Mr. J. W. Milner, 
Mr. F. Mather, 
Mr. C. Hallock, 
SEcTION 4. Mr. E. G. Blackford, l 
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Mr. B. Phillips, 
Natural History, Aquaria, etc. 
Fishertes. 
THE PRESIDENT called attention to a new illustrated work on 
the “ Game Fishes,” about to be issued by Charles F. Scribner’s 
Sons, New York, the chromos being after oil paintings by S. A. 
Kilbourne, and the text by Prof. G. Brown Goode, of the Smith- 
sonian Institution. 
Mr. Barnet PuILuips then read the following paper on Pre- 
historic Fish Hooks, exhibiting a collection of bronze hooks, &c. 
I do not think I am making too much of a divergence from 
the general topics brought before the notice of the Association, 
when I call your attention to some implements of fishing in 
use say three or four thousand years ago, 
