BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 17^ 



Salmon ialen August 31. 



No. 



Weight. I No. Weight. 



I Pounds. 



9 1 7 



10 14 



11 1 5 



12 7 



13 11 



14 ' 10 



15 8 



16 5 



No. 1 "Weight. No. , Weight. 



No. 



Pounds. 



17 , 18 



18 14 



19 7 



20 i 8 



21 ; 8 



22 12 



23 6 



24 1 16 



' Pounds. 



25 12 



26 5 



27 7 



28 14 



29 j 8 



30 1 7 



31 j 12 



32 ' 7 



Weight. 



33 



34 



35 



36 



37 



38 



Total 



Pounds. 

 13 

 7 

 5 

 7 

 6 

 9 



367 



Salmon taken Sepiemher 9. 



9«.— VITAIiITY OF OERMAIV CARP ANO RESTOBATIOIV 



APPAREIVTIjY »EA». 



OF iDoini: 



By CHARLES W, SCUDDER. 



Wishing to examine some scale carp anatomically, on January 2(1 I 

 visited the Central Hatching Station of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion in the Armory building, and called for dead carp, as they would 

 answer my purpose as well as live ones. Mr. J. E. Brown handed me 

 seven or eight, which were from 1 to 3 inches in length, and which had 

 been thrown out of the tanks as dead. These I at once put into an 

 envelope and carried home in my pocket. 



At least an hour later I removed them from the envelope and put 

 them in a wash-bowl of water for cleansing them. I soon noticed that 

 two of them were floating on their sides and occasionally gasping. A 

 half hour after this, for the purpose of discovering how much vitality 

 there might be in the two in which I had observed signs of life, I placed 

 in the mouth, of each one a droj) of brandy diluted with an equal quan- 



