BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 119 



1878. Abbott, C. C. — Contiuued. 



ocean (at any rate, from tlie lower portion of the river) in immense num- 

 bers, early in March, and remains about the rocks at the head of tide- water 

 for some time, as though waiting for the coming shad and herring. With 

 the shad they pass up the river beyond tide- water, and in the rapid, rocky 

 portions of the river, having deposited their own ova, they wander over the 

 breeding grounds of other fishes, and devour every egg they can find. "I 

 have found lampreys in Crosswick's Creek in the mouth of May gathering 

 up the eggs from suntishes' nests; and several times, when at the shad fish- 

 eries, I have taken small lampreys — from five to seven inches in length — 

 that were attached to shad, with their sucking disks (mouths) firmly closed 

 on the vagiual orifice, through which they were sucking the eggs."] 



1878. Kaumann, Herr [of Halle]. Zur Aalfrage. < Deutsche Fisch- 

 erei-Zeitung-, i, 1878, pp. 214-215, June 2. 



[" On the eel problem." Generalizations, apparently of little moment.] 



1878. N. Y. Evening Post. Where do Eels Breed "? Seth Green's solu- 

 tion of a piscatorial problem. < K. Y. Evening Post, Aug., 



1878. 



[Seth Green maintains that eels breed only in salt water; describes the 

 mounting in the Hudson Eiver, and, mirahile dictu, says that eels are hybrids 

 (of what origin not stated), and that they never contain eggs or reproduce 

 their own kind. Mr. Green's views are doubtless misrepresented by there- 

 porter. ] 



1878. Finn, W. [of Berlin]. Zur Aalfrage. < Deutsche Fischerei-Zei- 



tung, i, 1878, p. 254, Aug. 13. 



[" On the eel question." Herr Finn calls attention to criticisms on Ball- 

 mer's paper by Gerhard v. Yhlen, of Sweden, and Arthur Feddersen, of Den- 

 mark, and suggests several objections to the idea that eels are born only in 

 salt water. ] 



1878. Sellin, W. [" On Xematoid Parasites mistaken for Young Eels."] 



< Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in 



Mecklenburg, xxxi, 1878, pp. 111-112. 



[Not seen. Title from Zoological Record. ] 



1878. Editorial. Propagation of Eels. < Sunbury (Pa.) American, 



Aug. 21, 1880. 



[Quoting from London "Country" and "Augsburger Abend-Zeitung" 

 Eberhard's observations.] 



1878. Baird, Spencer F. Propagation of Eels. < Sunbury (Pa.) 



American, Aug. 30 or Sept. 0, 1878. 



[Letter, dated Gloucester, Aug. 27, 1878, criticising Eberhardt's article on 

 propagation of eels, first published in the Gartenlaube.'] 



1878. Mather, Fred. An Eel has 9,000,000 Eggs. < X. Y^ Times, 



Dec. 13, 1878. 

 1878. Anonymous. Professor Packard's Discovery. <X. Y. Sun, Dec. 



8, 1878. 

 1878. KoosEVELT, EoBERT B. Habits of Eels. < Forest and Stream, 



June 13, 1878. 



[A reiteration and recapitulation of the claims that eels spawn in fresh 

 water in the writer's Long Island ponds. ] 



