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pose of making the organization a permanent 

 one. The following officers were elected: 

 President, Carl Westerfeld, member Cali- 

 fornia Fish and Game Commission, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. ; Vice-president, Henry O'Malley, 

 Pacific Coast Supt. of Hatcheries for U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries, Oregon City, Oregon; 

 Vice-president, Professor Trevor Kincaid, head 

 of Department of Zoology, University of 

 Washington, Seattle, Wash.; Secretary, John 

 N". Cobb, editor Pacific Fisherman, Seattle, 

 Wash., and Treasurer, Russell Palmer, Seattle, 

 Wash. 



The first annual meeting was held at the 

 University of Washington, Seattle, on June 

 10-12, when the following papers were read: 



Policy of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries with 

 respect to the Pacific Fisheries, by Dr. H. M. 

 Smith, Commissioner of Fisheries. 



Establishment of a Fishery School at the Uni- 

 versity of Washington, by Professor Trevor Kin- 

 caid. 



Some Neglected Fishery Resources of the Pa- 

 cific Coast, by John N. Cobb. 



Angling and Netting; the Conservation of the 

 Marine Fishes of Southern California, by Dr. 

 Charles F. Holder. 



The Nanaimo, British Columbia, Biological Lab- 

 oratory, by C. McLean Fraser, Director. 



Hybridization of Salmons, by Professor Victor 

 E. Smith. 



Bearing and Feeding Salmon Fry. Separate 

 papers by Henry O 'Malley, of the XJ. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries; W. H. Shebley, California Supt. of 

 Hatcheries; K. E. Clanton, Oregon Supt. of Hatch- 

 eries; Stephen Butts, Supt. Willapa State Hatch- 

 ery, Lebam, Wash., and L. M. Eice, Supt. Chehalis, 

 Wash., Hatchery. 



The society decided to retain for another 

 year the officers elected at the March meet- 

 ing, and in addition the following to serve 

 as an executive committee: Dr. Barton W. 

 Evermann, Director Museum California 

 Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal.; 

 C. McLean Fraser, Director Biological Labo- 

 ratory, Nanaimo, British Columbia; Dr. 

 Charles F. Holder, Pasadena, California; 

 Leslie H. Darwin, Washington Fish and Game 

 Commissioner, Seattle, Wash. ; M. J. Kinney, 

 member Oregon Fish and Game Commission, 

 Portland, Oregon; Ward T. Bower, Pacific 



Coast Agent U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Seattle, 

 Wash., and M. D. Baldwin, Esq., member 

 Montana Fish and Game Commission, Ealis- 

 pell, Montana. 



The next annual meeting will be held in 

 San Francisco in 1916, the date to be fixed 

 later. 



The society will publish its annual pro- 

 ceedings. 



John N. Cobb, 



Secretary 



TSE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



As was announced in last week's issue of 

 Science the American Chemical Society is 

 unable to hold the meeting which had been 

 planned for Montreal in September. The 

 conditions are explained in the following 

 letter addressed to Dr. Charles L. Parsons, 

 secretary of the society, by Professor R. F. 

 Euttan, chairman of the Montreal committee : 



The declaration of war between Germany and 

 England found me at Metis Beach, 500 miles down 

 the St. Lawrence, playing golf with a feeling of 

 relief that our organization for the meeting was so 

 complete. 



My first wire to you was mis-sent by a habitant 

 operator, who did not think the order of initials 

 was of any importance. I am sorry for the delay. 

 I took the first train back to Montreal, arriving 

 this morning, and wired you. 



We had a meeting of all the executive committee 

 in town this afternoon, and with profound regret, 

 fully realizing what it meant to you and the so- 

 ciety, decided that the meeting could not be made 

 to go in British territory this autumn. I wired you 

 at once. 



"Canada is sending the first contingent of 20,- 

 000 very soon and a second and third will follow. 



"Montrealers feel that we are at war with Ger- 

 many and Austria, and are behaving as if the 

 enemy were threatening us. 



' ' The harbor, canals, etc., are under martial law. 

 The excursions were off, as the company cancelled 

 our contract, for the steamers for the rapids and 

 harbor. 



"No German member of the society would nat- 

 urally come to British soil and all with German 

 names would be questioned at the boundary. Many 

 are even now turned back. We felt that the ex- 



