REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XIII 



in presenting to the United States a quarter of a million of the salmon 

 of the Rhine could be reciprocated. Messrs. Fred Mather and A. A. 

 Anderson were detailed for the purpose, and visited Noank on the begin- 

 ning of August to receive instructions, the steamer leaving New York on 

 the 5th of August, Unfortunately the experiment was a failure, the fish 

 dying a few days after the vessel left, These gentlemen returned to 

 Noank on the 11th of September for the purpose of presenting their 

 report. Full reference to this subject will be found under the head of 

 the subject of " Propagation of shad for 1874," and in an appendix, and 

 further allusion to it here is necessary only to renew the reference to the 

 great liberality of the North German Lloyd in granting free passage 

 to the two gentlemen mentioned above, with their freight, to Bremen 

 and return. 



The steamer Blue Light went out of commission on the 9th of Sep- 

 tember, and was laid up, under the direction of the Secretary of the 

 Navy, at New London ; after which the work of the Commission was 

 prosecuted almost entirely by means of sail and row boats. 



Many interesting discoveries were made in the way of additions of 

 previously unrecorded species on the coast, and in extending the area of 

 the distribution of others. A general sketch of the results, so far as 

 tbe invertebrates are concerned, will be found in an article by Professor 

 Yerrill. 



The labors of the Commission at Noank extended over the months ot 

 July, August, and September. Professor Verrill and his party left early 

 in September, but the other divisions were occupied until the beginning 

 of October. Eemaining a few days to settle up the business of the 

 Commission, I left for Washington on the 8th of October. 



The working party of the Commission, for the most part, consisted of 

 the following gentlemen : Prof. A. E. Verrill, of Yale College, in charge 

 of the dredging operations, and of the department of marine zoology, 

 with the exception of the fishes, having as special assistants Prof. S. 

 J. Smith, Mr. S. F. Clark, Mr. Turnbull, of Yale College, and Prof. N. 

 S. Eice, of Wesleyan University, Middletown. 



The department of the fishes was under the direction of Mr. G. 

 Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institution, assisted by Mr. C. W. 

 Schuermann and T. H. Bean of Washington, and Mr. H. C. Chester. 



The algologists were Prof. D. C. Eaton, of Yale College, and Dr. W. 

 G. Farlow,of Cambridge, assisted by Messrs. Livingston and Klaburger. 

 Prof. A. Hyatt, of the Society of Natural History, Boston, with Mr. 

 Eichard Eathburn, and Mr. Saltonstall, of Boston, were also members 

 of the party. 



Among the visitors who devote more or less of their time to natural 

 history investigations, and who availed themselves of the material pro- 

 vided by the Commission, or who desired to become acquainted with its 

 methods, may be mentioned Dr. Joseph Leidy, Prof. Henry Chapman, 

 and Dr. Horatio Allen, of Philadelphia; Prof. D. C. Jordan, of India- 



