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half kilograms (3. 3 pouuds). The cost of the above 500 eels, post paid, 

 amounted to 6 marks ($1.92); the proceeds of the sale of 200 eels was 

 200 marks ($04); some 50 partly-grown eelstrausCerred to another pond 

 had, besides, a valae of 20 marks ($6.40). Such success should induce 

 owners of stagnant tish waters to make a trial of eel culture. 



Of special interest is the attempt to introduce the eels to the waters 

 of the Danube, where, as is well known, this fish does not occur. As 

 the Bavarian Fischerei Zeitung, No. 13, reports at Grossomehring, near 

 Ingolstadt, about the middle of June, iu the old bed of the Danube, 

 there was taken an eel GO centimeters (23.7 inches)' long, weighing 500 

 grams (18 ounces), which was very lively and well fed. 



53.— NOTES OI¥ €OI>, SUKIMP, ETC., AT COI^D SPRIIVO HARBOR. 



By FRED MATHEK. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Bcaird.] 



At high tide the tom-cod {micro gad us) run up to the hatchery and eat 

 the fresh-water shrimp, gammarns {?). I have a fyke-net set, and took 

 ten of them to-day, and all had their stomachs crowded with this food. 

 At high tide the water near the hatchery is only of a density of 1.02 to 

 1.05, and I have there taken menhaden, bluefish, tom-cod, Miircenoides 

 gunnellus (L.) Gill, and a species of Pleuronectes which I have not worked 

 out. 1 see that the 21. gunnellus, tom-cod, and the flat fish will soon 

 spawn. Have only taken one gunnellus; kept it a week in ajar of salt 

 water, and it died to-day. Its eggs were large and within a few days of 

 ripening. It had only one ovary. 



Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., October 14, 1883. 



54.— €ARI» CAUGHT IIV OOEECHEE RITER. 



By 0£OR€}E A. HU1>§0]V. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



I sent to the l>5'ational Museum to-day some small fish which were 

 caught in the fresh water of the Ogeechee Eiver, in a trap which had 

 been set for herring, rockfish, &c. Being the first of the kind ever 

 seen in this section, they are sent to you for identification. 



Savannah, Ga., April 14, 1884. 



Note.— The fish sent by Mr. Hudson arrived April 16, 1884 (N. M. Ace, No. 14280), 

 and proved to be five carp of about one pound weight. — C. W. S. 



