120 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



1878. EoosEVELT, Egbert B. Reproductive Habits of Eels. 



< Transactions of the American Fish Cultural Association, 



seventh meeting, 1878, pp. 90-98. 



[Mr. Koosevelt maintains that eels were hatched in fresh water in his 

 trout x>onds, on Great South Bay, Long Island. ] 



1878. Cape Ann Advertiser. Bobbing for Eels by Moonlight. 



< Cape Ann Advertiser, July 19, 1878, p. 2. 



1878. Cape Ann Advertiser. The Eel Fisheries of South Deer Isle, 

 Maine. < Cape Ann Advertiser, Dec. 20, 1878, p. 4. 



1878. "Once a Fisherman." The Great Eel Question. <K. T. 

 Evening Post, Oct. 4, 1878. 



[Another man who mistakes intestinal worms for small eels.] 



1878. Schmidt, Herr. [" On the Economy of the Eel."] < Archiv des 



Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg, 

 xxxi, pp. 102-110. 



[Not seen. Title from Zoological Record.] 



1879. Roosevelt, Robert B. Reproductive Habits of Eels. < Trans- 



actions American Fish Cultural Association, eighth meeting, 

 1879, pp. 32-44. 



[A summation of recent discoveries, the author still maintaining that eels 

 breed in fresh water. ] 



1879. Sawyer, J. G-. [of Sawmill Rift, Pike Co., Pa.] That Male Eel. 

 <New York Sun, May 17, 1879. 



[An observer forty years familiar with the fisheries of the Delaware River 

 describes the diiferences between male and female eels ; gives an account 

 of the mounting of the young eels in the Delaware about June 1, and speaks 

 of the abundance of eels in Metaqua Pond, Sullivan County, and other in- 

 land waters in that vicinity separated from the sea by high waterfalls.] 



1879. Putnam, Frederick W. "Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited a 

 specimen of the common eel {AnguiUa hostoniensis)J^ < Pro- 

 ceedings Boston Society of Natural History, xix, 1879, pp. 279- 



280. 



[Notes on recent history of this discussion. Attention called to the eggs 

 in the specimens exhibited, all of which were "silver bellies." The ques- 

 tion asked, " AVill ' golden bellies' prove to be males?"] 



1879. DuNKER. Geht der Aal in Erbsenfelder ? < Deutscher Fischerei- 

 Verein, ii, 1879, Nov. 4, pp. 357-358. 



["Do eels frequent pea-patches ?" — a discussion of the question.] 

 1879. iSTiCKLAS, Carl. Der Aal {AnguiUa vulgaris). < Deutscher 

 Fischerei-Yerein, ii, 1879, Oct. V, pp. 326-328. Extract from 

 " Lehrbuch fiir Teichwirthschaft." 



[A popular synopsis of the natural history of the eel from the standpoint 

 of the tish-eulturisT. ] 



1879. Haack, H. Die Einfiihruug von Aalbrut in deutsche Gewasser. 



< Deutsche Fischerei-Zeitung, ii, 1879, March 4, p. 65. 

 [Practical suggestions to fish-culturists concerning the planting of young 



eels. ] 



