PREFATORY NOTE. IX 



the archives of the Pish Commission. The first three sections are mainly made np from the 

 material collection by the special agents in the field, and the form is as nearly as possible that in 

 which it was originally collected; much, however, has been added from the archives of the 

 Commission. 



By the plan just detailed, the statistical matter gathered by the joint efforts of the two 

 organizations is assigned to the Census, together with a sufficient amount of descriptive and 

 explanatory test to make the statistics fully intelligible, while the descriptive, historical, and 

 natural history papers are taken by the Fish Commission, these being enriched by a sufficient 

 amount of statistical detail to render them as useful as possible for the class of readers and students 

 for whom they are intended. 



The statistical results of the investigation have already been published in a preliminary way. 

 A series of special statistical tables appeared in the Bulletins of the Census Office, as follows : 

 (1.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 176. [Preliminary Report upon the Pacific States and Territories] prepared by Mr. Goode 



from returns of Special Agents Jordan, Swan, aud Bean. Dated May 24, 1884. 4to. Pp. 6 (-(- 2). 

 (2.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 261. Statistics of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes. Prepared by Mr. Frederick \V. True 



from notes of Special Agent Kumlien. Dated September 1, 1881. 4to. Pp. 8. 

 (3.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 278. Statistics of the Fisheries of Maine. Prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll from his own notes 



and those of Capt. J. W. Collins and Mr. C. G. Atkins. Dated November 22, 1881. 4to. Pp. 47 (+1). 

 (4.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 281. Statistics of the Fisheries of Virginia. Prepared by Colouol Marshall MacDouald. 



Dated December 1, 1881. 4to. Pp. 8. 

 (5. ) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 295. Statistics of the Fisheries of Massachusetts. Prepared by Mr. A. Howard Clark from 



returns of Special Agents Wilcox, Clark, True, Collins, and Atwood. Dated March 1, 1882. 4to. Pp. 35 + 1. 

 (li.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 291. Statistics of the Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Pre- 

 pared by Mr. A. Howard Clark. Dated April 5, 1882. 4to. Pp. 7 (+ 1. ) 

 (7.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 297. Commercial Fisheries of the Middle States. Prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll and Colonel 



M. MacDouald. Dated June 5, 1882. 4to. Pp. 14. 

 (8.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 298. Commercial Fisheries of the Southern Atlantic States. Prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll 



and Colonel M. MacDonald. Dated June 5, 1882. 4to. Pp.18. (This bulletin includes statistics of No. 4 (C. 



B., No. 281). 



In all 148 pages, quarto. In addition to these certain special tables have appeared. 

 (10.) STATISTICAL TABLE. Statistics of the Fisheries of the United States in 1880. [Prepared by Messrs. Goode and 

 Earll from the reports of special agents.] Printed in Compendium of the Tenth Census, p. 88. Pp. . 

 Republished in Bulletin of the United States Fish .Commission, Vol. Ill, 1883, pp. 270-71, and in Preliminary 

 Catalogue, International Fisheries Exhibition, January, p. 5. 



(11.) STATISTICAL TABLE. Table showing by States the quantity of Spanish mackerel taken in 1880, and the total 

 catch for the United States. By R. Edward Earll. Report United States Fish Commission. Part VIII, 

 1880, p. 410. 

 (12.) STATISTICAL SUMMAKY. Statistics of the Davis Strait Halibut Fisheries. By Newton P. Scudder. Report 



United States Fish Commission. Part VIII, pp. 190-192. 

 (13.) STATISTICAL SUMMARY. Statistics of the Swordfish Fishery. By G. Brown Goode. Report United States Fish 



Commissioners. Part VIII, pp. 361-367. 

 (14.) STATISTICAL SUMMARIES. Statistics of the Mackerel Fishery in 1880. By R. Edward Earll. Report United 



States Fish Commission. Part IX, pp. [124]-[127.] 



[Statistics of the Mackerel Canning Industry.] By R. Edward Earll. Ibid, p. [131.] 

 Statistics of the Inspection of Mackerel from 1804 to 1880. By A. Howard Clark. 



Ibid, pp. [162]-[213.] 



Vessels in the Macki-rt-l Fishery in 1880. Ibid, p. 418. 



Catch of Mackerel by Americans in Canadian waters. 1873-'81. Ibid, p. [430.] 



(15.) INTRODUCTION to Section B., U. S. Catalogue International Fisheries Exhibition, London. (Collection of Eco- 

 nomic Crustaceans, Worms, Echinoderms, and Sponges.) By Rjohard Rathbun. Pp. [3]-[20.] Crabs, p. [3]: 

 Lobsters, p. [6]: Crayfish, p. [HI]: Shrimp and Prawns, p. [11]: Sponges, p. [18], etc. 



