XCVl CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 APPENDIX B— Continued. 



XIII. Miscellaneous notes, &c. — Continued. 



A. On the salmon in Maine. By Thomas Lincoln 369 



B. On the stomachs of salmon and their contents 371 



1. On the cajcal appendages of the stomach. By James K. Thacher 371 



2. On the contents of the stomach. By S. I. Smith 371 



C. On the silver-trout of Monadnock Lake. By Thos. E. Hatch, M. D 372 



D. On the edible qualities of the Sacramento salmon. By S. R.Throckmorton 373 



E. On the saluion-tisheries of the Sacramento River. By Livingston Stone 374 



1. Drift-net fishing 374 



2. Fyke-net fishing 378 



3. Sweep-seine fishing 378 



XIV. Additional reports relative to the hatching and planting of 



THE Penobscot salmon 380 



A. Now Hampshire 380 



B. New Jersey 381 



C. Pennsylvania 382 



D. Ohio 382 



E. Wisconsin 383 



APPENDIX C— THE SHAD AND ALEWIFE, (species of Clupeidie) 385 



XV. Letters referring to experiments of W. C. Daniell, M. D., in in- 

 troducing SHAD INTO THE AlAIJAMA RiVER 387 



XVI. Letters referring to the presence of shad in the rivers tribu- 

 tary TO the Gulf op Mexico 391 



XVII. Report of a reconnaisance of the shad-rivers south of the 

 POTOMAC By H. C. Yarrow, M. D 396 



1. Introductory remarks 396 



2. Great decrease of fish in Georgia 396 



3. Decrease in North Carolina 398 



4. Contrivances that capture all the fish 401 



XVIII. Report on shad-hatching operations 403 



A. Operations in 1872 403 



B. Operations in 1873 406 



1. The Savannah, Neuse, and Roanoke River.s 406 



2. The Delaware River. By J. H. Slack, M. D 409 



3. Report on the transfer of shad from the Hudson to the Sacra- 



mento River. By Livingston Stone 413 



4. On shad-hatchiug operations by the commissioners of the State 



of Maine. By E. M. Stilwell 417 



XIX. Report on the propagation op the shad, (Alosa sapidissijia,) and 

 its introduction into new waters, by the United States Commis- 

 sioner in 1873. By James W. Milner 419 



1. Shad-hatching an important discoverj' 419 



2. Plan of operations 419 



3. Operations on the Savannah, Neuse, and Roanoke Rivers 419 



4. Operations on the Potomac River 420 



Table — shad-hatchiug on the Potomac River, Jackson City, 



Va., opposite Washington, D. C, in the year 1873 425 



5. Methods employed in shad-hatching 425 



6. Relation of the temperature of the water to the propagation of 



the shad 428 



7. The ovaries and ova of the shad 430 



