112 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



4S.— WIIITEFISH, liAKE TROUT, AND BKOOK TROUT IN FRANCE. 



[Extract from Proceedings of the Society of Acclimatizatiou.*] 



The manager of the piscicultural establishment of Bouzey writes to 

 the agent-general: "I have the satisfaction to announce to yon that the 

 Salmo namaycush are magnificent and very vigorous. We have had no 

 losses up to the present time, though the absorption of the yelk-sac 

 will be coniplete in eight days. The eggs of Goregonus albus have 

 turned out finely, and there are nearly as many alevins as there were 

 eggs. Five thousand of them have been jjut in the lake of Girardins, 

 10,000 in the Bouzey reservoir, 4,000 in a special piscicultural basin 

 well adapted to them, and 1,000 remain on the tables, which we will try 

 to raise if it is possible. The eggs of Salmo fontinalis are beginning to 

 hatch and promise a fine result." 



Mr. Leon d'Halloy writes to the recording secretary : " I have received 

 the eggs of Salmo namaycush and of Coregonus forwarded by the society. 

 The Coregonus eggs have been hatched in the German apparatus which 

 you caused to be sent to me. This apparatus has given excellent re- 

 sults ; the eggs remain always very bright, and clean themselves very 

 readily, as you told me would be the case. The alevins have been set 

 free. Be particular to recommend to put the young of this species in 

 deep water (of at least three meters), otherwise they will be lost at the 

 age of six months ; before that age they may be raised in water 50 centi- 

 meters deep. The Salmo namaycush are coming out well and the alevius 

 are very vigorous. 



"All mj^ fish are doing finely. Some of my Salmo foniinalis (those 

 Avhich you saw) reproduced this year. The alevins are more vigorous 

 than those from the eggs which I have received during the year from 

 Kew York. I am satisfied with the Loch Levin trout. What made me 

 judge ill of this species the first was that, as with the Salmo fontinaUs, 

 the journey- of the eggs in ice causes the embryos produced to be less 

 vigorous." 



40.— CAKa» BN AN aNSTAl-IiMENT OF SHAD FROITI JAMES RIVER. 



By E. G. BLACKFOKD. 



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



A barrel of shad arrived to-day in our market that were caught in 

 the James River, Virginia. Among them was one German carp, weigh- 

 ing 3i ])ounds. 



New York, Ajn-U 4, 1884. 



* Bulletin Mensuel de la SocUte Nationale d'Acclimatation de France, Mars, 1883, pp. 

 186, 187. 



