EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. V 



S. I. Smith, ) assistant teachers of zool- 



J. K. Thatcher, ] ogy iu Yale College. 



0. Harger ; assistant in Yale Museum. 



John B. Isham, * ) 4. i ±. ^ ^- i o • 

 George IK Sau-es, i students of 1 ale Sci- 



T. Mitchell Prudden, ) ^"^^^^ ^^^^«^- 

 Talcott H. Bussell, of 'Nev^ Haven. 



I^EW York IT. E. Webster, of Schenectady ; professor 



of natural history, Union College. 

 Charles Pond ; student of uataral history, 



Union College. 

 R.A. Ward, of Rochester; in^ofessor of nat- 

 ural history, Rochester University. 

 Ohio Rev. J. G. Fraser, of East Toledo. 



T> 7 ^ x> • } committee on marine 



Robert Brown, jr aquaria for the Cin- 



JohnI)avts,2LD., ^ einnati Industrial Ex- 

 f.^'^-/- Taylor, ( .. s tember 



Richard Folsom, j Ld October, 1872. 

 Iowa J.. E. Todd, of Tabor ; professor of natural 



science, Tabor College. 

 District of Columbia ..Theodore Gill, Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington. 

 Edicard Palmer, of Washington. 

 A. G. Seaman, Agricultural Department, 



Washington. 



Among these visitors, Mr. Robert Brown, Dr. John Davis, Rev. A. 

 E. Taylor, and Mr. Richard Folsom came for the purpose of obtaining 

 living specimens of marine zoology with which to stock an aquarium at 

 the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. 



In the course of the summer, the fish-commissioners of Maine, E. 

 M. Stilwell and O. C. Stanley, spent several days with me, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Atkins, during which time the subject of restocking the 

 waters of the State with salmon was discussed, and an understanding 

 entered into with them in regard to hatching such eggs of this fish as I 

 might be able to allot to the State from the. stock owned by the United 

 States. Mr. Livingston Stone also, prior to his departure for California 

 for the purpose of securing eggs of the Sacramento salmon, visited me 

 in order to arrange the details of his operations. 



In continuation of the courtesies previously extended, the Treasury 

 Department instructed Capt. D. B. Hodgden, in command of the 

 revenue-cutter Mosswood, to render me such assistance as he could 

 without interfering with his regular duties; and to him and his 

 officers I am under many obligations for the cordiality and readiness 

 with which they carried out these orders. Without the help of the 

 cutter, I should have been able to make a few only of the researches 



