THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 229 
The Secretary then read the following letter: 
WASHINGTON OFFICE 
WORLD’S INDUSTRIAL COTTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, 
515 Fourteenth Street. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., Way 13th, 1884. 
Mr. MaRSHALL MCDONALD, 
Chairman Local Executive Committee: 
DEAR SiR:—Permit me through you to extend to the American Fish 
Cultural Association, an invitation to hold its next annual meeting on 
the grounds and in one of the buildings of the World’s Industrial Cot- 
ton Centennial Exposition, to be held at New Orleans, beginning De- 
cember Ist, 1884, and continuing for six months. Any time that your 
Association may designate for said meeting will be acceptable to the 
Directory, which I have the honor to represent. As there will un- 
doubtedly be large displays of fish-culture made by both the United 
States Fish Commission, and by the several States interested in this 
great food industry, I think your Association will derive both pleasure 
and profit by accepting this invitation. Be assured that the Executive 
Managers of the Exposition will do all that in them lies to make your 
annual meeting next year—if held at the Exposition—a great success. 
Very respectfully yours, 
E. A. BURKE, Director General. 
Mr. Worth offered a resolution as follows: 
Resolved, That if the United States Fish Commissioner makes a fish- 
ery display at the World’s Exposition ; that the fishermen of the coun- 
try be requested to meet in convention the American Fish- Cultural 
Association there at its next annual meeting. 
Dr. Hupson then offered: 
Resolved, That the thanks of the visiting members of the American 
Fish-Cultural Association are hereby tendered to the various local 
committees for ‘their cordial reception, and take this opportunity to 
express their appreciation of the efforts which have been made to ren- 
der this fourteenth annual reunion the most successful since the 
organization of the Association. 
The PRESIDENT announced that after adjournment the Associ- 
ation would call upon the President of the United States, as had 
been arranged. 
