OCTOBEB 30, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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in zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 D. C: For the best methods of observing the 

 habits and recording the life histories of fishes, 

 with an illustrative example. $100 in gold. 

 Awarded to Dr. Jacob Reighard, University of 

 Michigan, Ann Arbor. 



By Dr. F. M. Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts, 

 member of the American Fisheries Society: For 

 the best demonstration of the comparative value 

 of different kinds of foods for use in rearing 

 young salmonoids, taking into consideration 

 cheapness, availability and potentiality. §150 in 

 gold. Awarded to Charles G. Atkins, superin- 

 tendent U. S. Fisheries Station, East Orland, 

 Maine. 



By the New York Academy of Sciences, New 

 York City: For the contribution, not entered in 

 competition for any other award, which shall be 

 judged to have the greatest practical value to the 

 fisheries or fish culture. $100 in gold. Awarded 

 to John I. Solomon, New York City, for a paper 

 describing a process for preserving pearl-oyster 

 fisheries and for increasing the value of the yield 

 of pearls therefrom. 



For the other prizes there was either no 

 competition or the papers were not adjudged 

 to be of sufficient merit. 



Among the resolutions and views adopted by 

 the congress were the following: (1) Express- 

 ing pleasure that the long-standing fishery dis- 

 pute between the United States and Great 

 Britain aSecting waters on the northeast coast 

 of North America is to be submitted to settle- 

 ment by arbitration; (2) commending the 

 President of the United States for his stand 

 in behalf of the conservation of natural re- 

 sources ; (3) advocating the establishment, in 

 all countries having important fisheries, of 

 national schools of fisheries and fish culture 

 under government auspices ; (4) urging the 

 necessity of simplifying fishery laws by the 

 elimination of qualifying clauses which often 

 provide loopholes through which offenders may 

 escape penalties and waters remain unpro- 

 tected; (5) favoring the formation of the 

 Appalachian Forest Reserve and other similar 

 reserves which embrace the headwaters of im- 

 portant streams; (6) advocating uniform 

 measures on the part of the United States and 

 Canada for the extermination or utilization 

 of the dogfishes, in view of the great injury 

 done thereby to the fishing industry; (7) re- 



affirming the action of former International 

 Fishery Congresses in recommending an inter- 

 national oceanographic exploration of the 

 Mediterranean in the interests of the fisheries; 

 (8) endorsing the proposition to issue a con- 

 densed international dictionary of fisheries 

 and fish culture, in which will be found in 

 twelve or fourteen languages the names of the 

 most important commercial fishes, fishing 

 gear, fishing craft, fishery products, etc., 

 weights and measures used in the fish trade, 

 fish-cultural termini technici, etc. 



Among the many pleasant events occurring 

 during the week of the congress were a recep- 

 tion by the President of the United States 

 (who was the honorary president of the con- 

 gress) ; a reception by the secretary of Com- 

 merce and Labor; a visit to the Library of 

 Congress, where there was a special display 

 of fishery literature; complimentary luncheons 

 tendered by the American Fisheries Society, 

 the Alaska Packers' Association, and the Blue 

 Eidge Eod and Gun Club; special exhibits of 

 fishing craft and of specimens of fishes and 

 reptiles at the National Museum, and of liv- 

 ing fishes, hatching operations, and apparatus 

 and products of the fisheries at the Bureau of 

 Fisheries; a display of moving pictures of 

 fishing, hunting, and logging scenes, through 

 the courtesy of the New England Forest, Fish 

 and Game Association, many of the views be- 

 ing then shown for the first time; and a ban- 

 quet at which the foreign delegates were 

 guests of honor. 



The congress accepted the invitations of the 

 Italian. Fisheries Society and the City of 

 Pome to hold the next meeting in Pome in 

 1911, the fiftieth anniversary of the unification 

 of Italy. 



MEMORIAL EXERCISES IN BONOR OF 

 WILLIAM F. VILAS 



Memorial exercises in honor of William F. 

 Vilas were held in the Armory at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin on October 20. The audi- 

 ence, which numbered nearly 5,000, consisted 

 of regents, faculty, students and alumni of the 

 university, and citizens of Madison. Ex- 

 Governor W. D. Hoard spoke on behalf of 

 the legents; Chief Justice J. B. Winslow for 



