EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING, 57 
ing for the erection of two or more fish-hatching establish- 
ments: one for salmon near Puget’s Sound, and the other at 
some point onthe Atlantic coast. This was, I think, the first 
move toward making fish culture a national institution, and its 
fruits are seen to-day in the reports of the United States Fish 
Commission, showing the great amount of work done, not only 
in our own country, but also having a system of fish exchanges 
established, whereby in return for what we have in plenty we 
obtain the most desirable of European fishes for our own waters. 
“The second annual meeting was held at the office of Mr. 
George Shepard Page, No. 1o Warren street, New York, on 
Tuesday, February 11, 1873, and was distinguished by the fact 
that Prof. Baird’s report, as United States Fish Commisioner, 
in which he gives full credit to our Association for making the 
first movement in obtaining an appropriation from Congress, 
was read in full before it and warmly applauded. 
At this meeting Mr. Stone resigned the position of Secretary, 
and Mr. A. S. Collins was elected to succeed him, the other offi- 
cers remaining as before. 
The third meeting was held at the same place on Tuesday, 
Feb. 10, 1874, when Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt was chosen Presi- 
dent, and Mr. George S. Page Vice-President, with Mr. Collins 
as Secretary, and Mr. Bowles as Treasurer. Although this 
meeting was well attended and many interesting papers read, 
there were no great events of importance to record which would 
raise it above its fellows, as in the case of the two previous ones. 
The fourth meeting, on Tuesday, February gth, 1875, was 
also held at the office of Mr. Page, and the same officers elect- 
ed. Mr. Eugene G. Blackford and Prof. Baird both spoke in 
favor of the establishment of a public Aquarium in New York, 
by a joint-stock company, as instructive and profitable, and the 
Association passed a resolution expressing their “ belief that an 
Aquarium in the city of New York would bea great benefit to 
science generally, and ichthyology in particular, and giving its 
favorable countenance to any public or private measure in 
that direction.” 
There is reason to believe that this also brought forth fruit, 
_in the establishing of one by private enterprise, in which the As- 
