460 FOREST AND STREAM. [Sept. 17, 1910. 
:so inform the chairman, in order that complete 
■arrangements may be made. 
NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS AND TITLES OF PAPERS TO 
BE READ. 
John P. Babcock, Deputy Fish Commissioner 
•of British Columbia, Victoria, B. C. “Some Ex¬ 
periments in the Burial of Salmon Eggs, Sug¬ 
gesting a New Method of Hatching Salmon and 
Trout.” , 
Dr. S. P. Bartlett, Field Superintendent of the 
United States Fisheries Station, Quincy, Ill. 
"Rescue Work—The Saving of Fishes frqm 
Overflowed Lands.” 
Dr. T. H. Bean, State Fish Culturist of New 
York. “Notes on the Black Basses, with Special 
Reference to their Cultivation in Ponds.” 
D. C. Booth, Superintendent of the United 
States Fisheries Station, Spearfish, S. D. “Fish 
Cultural Possibilities of the National Preserves.” 
Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Director American Museum 
of Natural History. “The Education of the Peo¬ 
ple in Fishery Matters.” 
Charles W. Burnham, U. S. Bureau of Fish- 
'eries, Washington, D. C. “Notes on the Collec¬ 
tion and Transportation of an Exhibit of Ber¬ 
muda Fishes.” 
Prof. Bashford Dean, Columbia University. 
“Announcement of Dr. Nishikawa’s Success in 
Causing the Pearl Oyster to Secrete Perfect and 
Spherical Pearls.” 
S. W. Downing, Superintendent of the United 
States Fisheries Station, Put-in Bay, Ohio. 
“Some of the Difficulties Encountered in Col¬ 
lecting Pike Perch Eggs.” 
Dr. B. W. Evermann, Chief of Division of 
Scientific Inquiry, United States Bureau of Fish¬ 
eries. “The Alaska Fisheries Service” (twenty- 
five minutes). “A Pair of Fur Seal Pups in 
Domestication” (ten minutes). 
A. Kelly Evans, Commissioner of Game and 
Fisheries, Ontario, Canada. “The Practical En¬ 
forcement of Fishery Regulations.” 
Prof. Irving A. Field, Western Maryland Col¬ 
lege. “The Utilization of Sea Mussels for 
Food.” 
R. E. Follett, Vice-President and General 
Manager New England Forest, Fish and Game 
Association. “Moving Pictures with Lecture on 
Conservation of Forest Life.” 
Prof. S. A. Forbes, Director State Laboratory 
■of Natural History, Urbana, Ill. “A Program 
for the Investigation of a River System in the 
Interest of Fisheries.” 
Samuel F. Fullerton, St. Paul, Minn. “The 
Fish Culturists’ Opportunity.” 
Dr. Theodore Gill, Smithsonian Institution. 
“The Natural Llistory of the Weakfish.” 
Ferdinand Hansen, President Russian Caviar 
Co., New York city. “On the Introduction of 
the European Sturgeon.” 
Prof. Francis H. Herrick, Western Reserve 
University, Cleveland, Ohio. “Protecting the 
Lobster.” 
Dr. F. M. Johnson, Boston, Mass. “Salvelinus 
Fontinalis of the Sea.” 
President David Starr Jordan, Stanford Uni¬ 
versity. “International Regulations and what 
they Mean.” 
John L. Leary, Superintendent of the United 
States Fisheries Station, San Marcos, Texas. 
“The Sunfish.” 
Dr. M. C. Marsh, United States Bureau of 
Fisheries. Washington, D. C. “Thyroid Tumors 
in Salmonoids.” 
W. E. Meehan, Commissioner of Fisheries of 
Pennsylvania. “Observations on the Small¬ 
mouthed Black Bass During the Spawning Sea¬ 
son of 1910.” “The Work of the Department 
of Fisheries of Pennsylvania in the Prevention 
of Stream Pollution.” 
James Nevin, Superintendent Wisconsin Fish 
Commission, Madison, Wis. “Reminiscences of 
Forty-one Years’ Work in Fish Culture.” 
Prof. Raymond C. Osburn, Columbia Univer¬ 
sity, Assistant Director New York Aquarium. 
“The Effects of Exposure of the Gill Filaments 
of Fishes.” 
H. Wheeler Perce, President National Asso¬ 
ciation Scientific Angling Clubs. “Some General 
Remarks on Fishing for Sport.” ‘ 
W. LI. Safford, Superintendent Crawford 
Hatchery, Conneaut Lake, Pa. "Observations 
on Frog Culture.” 
Win. P. Seal, Delair, N. J. “The Future of 
the American Fisheries Society.” 
Dr. F. B. Sumner, Director U. S. Bureau of 
Fisheries Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 
"Adaptive Changes of Color Among Fishes.” 
(Illustrated.) 
W. T. Thompson, United States Fisheries 
Station, Leadville, Colo. “Is Irrigation a Menace 
to Trout Culture?” 
John W. Titcomb, Commissioner of Fisheries 
of Vermont. “On the Scientific Feeding of 
Fishes.” 
Dr. Charles H. Townsend, Director New York 
Aquarium, Acting Director American Museum 
of Natural History. “The Conservation of Our 
Rivers and Lakes.” 
Prof. H. B. Ward, University of Illinois. 
“Animal Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of 
Fresh Water Fish in the United States.” 
S. G. Worth, Superintendent U. S. Fisheries 
Station, Mammoth Springs, Ark. “Atlantic 
River Sturgeon in Economic Relation to Flies 
and Livestock.” “Observations on the Natural 
Food of Small-mouthed Bass Fry at Mammoth 
Springs Station, Arkansas.” 
The following members have also indicated 
that they will present papers, but the titles have 
not been received: Frank N. Clark, Superinten¬ 
dent United States Fisheries Station, Northville, 
Mich.; Prof. T. L. Hankinson, Zoologist, Char¬ 
leston, Ill.; R. S. Johnson, Chief of Division of 
Fish Culture, United States Bureau of Fisheries, 
Washington, D. C.; C. D. Joslyn, President State 
Board Fish Commissioners, Detroit, Mich; 
Dwight Lydell, Michigan Fish Commission, Com¬ 
stock Park, Mich.; Prof. E. E. Prince, Domin¬ 
ion Commissioner of Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada; 
A. Rosenberg, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
A special anniversary program will be in 
readiness for distribution at the meeting. Mem¬ 
bers are requested to send to the chairman as 
soon as possible the titles of all additional papers 
which should be included in the program, and 
to correct such errors as may be found in this 
announcement. 
C. H. Townsend, Chairman. 
W. E. Meehan, 
Frank N. Clark, 
Hugh M. Smith, 
George P. Slade, 
Raymond C. Osburn. 
Special Anniversary Committee. 
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A Record Season. 
St. John’s, N. F., Sept. 8.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Since last writing, in the course of my 
official duties I have visited all the south coast 
and the greater part of the west. Early in the 
season the Game and Inland Fish Commissioners 
made stringent rules as to the protection of the 
mouths of the rivers. 
All nets were removed to points on the coast 
that would give the salmon a fair chance of 
getting into the rivers. Nets were also removed 
from the'arms and estuaries near the salmon 
streams. This regulation caused a good deal of 
dissatisfaction among the coast fishermen, but 
the results have fully justified the action of the 
commission. 
The past season, all things considered, has 
been the best for many years. Inquiries all 
along the south coast elicited the fact that the 
run of salmon was much greater and the fish 
larger than ever before recorded. 
The supervisor of wardens at Placentia, P. 
Croke, assured me that all the pools up the 
Southeastern River were literally teeming with 
fish. The same was true of other rivers on the 
south coast that scarcely anyone fished. La 
Poile River with its beautiful pools was filled 
with numerous salmon of a very large size, and 
the anglers in that section were very few, if 
any. In the latter part of the season, owing to 
lack of rain, the rivers were very low, and the 
fish .sluggish. 
I camped at the Steel Mountains, St. Georges, 
one night and though the pool was full of sal¬ 
mon, we only got three for the evening and 
morning’s fishing. The surface of the pool was 
as calm as oil, and the water too clear. This is 
a lovely place to camp and practically unfre¬ 
quented. We were the only visitors, excepting 
one or two local anglers for the season. 
It is situated at the foot of the Steel Moun¬ 
tains about four miles from St. Georges. There 
is a splendid dry level road from the hotel kept 
by Mr. Le Roux, and one need scarcely wet his 
feet. This would be a great advantage to a 
party comprising ladies. 
We met on the train Mr. Mack, a celebrated 
local angler and writer, with his son, a chip of 
the old block. They told a story with great 
gusto in which the laugh was against them.. 
Mack, Jr., hooked a Aery large fish and played 
him for a couple of hours, then had hard lines 
and lost him. 
While he was still regretting his luck—this 
was the first rise he had got for the whole day— 
a young American came along with his outfit 
and stood near him. This boy had never fished 
before and did not know the etiquette. He 
asked permission to throw where Mr. Mack was 
fishing, and it was granted with a good humored 
smile. The youngster threw and in the second 
or third cast hooked a beauty. He got rattled 
naturally, so Mack constituted himself master of 
ceremonies. He directed the boy when to reel 
up, and when to give slack, and after a hard 
fight, assisted by the whole company, the boy 
landed a magnificent fish that tipped the scales 
at twenty-six pounds. This was the only fish 
that was landed for the day and Mack will 
never be convinced but that the unsophisticated 
greenhorn captured the salmon that was served 
up for his especial delectation. 
Guide Bennett, who was out with H. D. Reid, 
