22 FISH-CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
recording secretary declared that he preferred a fresh codfish 
to the brook trout or black bass.* 
WEDNESDAY, MAY 147TH. 
At half-past ten the President called the Association to order, 
and announced that the election of officers would take place at 
the afternoon session. The following Committee on Nomina- 
tions was then appointed to propose officers for the ensuing 
year: Messrs. G. Brown Goode, R. E. Earll, C. A. Kingsbury, 
C:;G i Agkine and’ Tarleton H.) Bean,:,~ The -President, furines 
stated that all names proposed for membership in the Associa- 
tion would be voted upon during the afternoon session. 
Mr. Buackrorp: | beg to state that there is one name which I 
feel that we should add to the list of honorary members, viz.: 
Professor Spencer F. Baird. I think that this action would be- 
no more than a fitting appreciation of his great work, and I 
therefore name Professor Spencer F. Baird as an honorary mem- 
ber of this Association. 
The PresipENT: Professor Baird is nominated as an honorary 
member of this Association; All those in’ favor ‘say Awes: 
(There being no dissenting voices, the nomination was carried.) 
The RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. President, | have received 
a telegram from Mr. W. F. Witcher, formerly Commissioner of 
Canada, in which he expresses his inability to attend this meet- 
ing, on account of family sickness. I have here many letters 
from members and others who regret their inability to be pres- 
ent. To read them all would consume the morning. I would; 
however, ask your attention to three of them. The first is from 
the father of American fish-culture, who writes: 
*Being a prominent member of the Ichthyophagus Club, any statement of his regarding the 
flavor of fishes should be be received with due caution, inasmuch as by virtue of the onerous 
duties of his office—‘*‘ head taster’’—his sense of taste has presumably become perverted or 
impaired. 
