184 PUBLICATIONS OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



883. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. Annual Record | of | Science and Industry | for | 1875. | 

 Edited by | Spencer F. Baird, [ with the assistance of eminent men of science. 

 I [Cut.] I New York: | Harper & Brothers, Publishers, | Franklin Square. | 

 187(5. (8vo. pp. ccxc, 656.) 



884. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. United States Fish Commission at Wood's Hole, Mass., 

 1875. <[ Ann. Bee, 1875-76, p. exxiv. 



885. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. Discoveries iu the Biological History of Fishes. < Ann. 

 Eec, 1875-76, p. cxcviii. 



886. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. Pisciculture and the Fisheries. (General summary.) 

 <!^Ann. Eec, 1875-76, pi». ccxxiv-ccxxix. 



887. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. Necrology [of Science for 1875]. <^w«. Bcc, 1875-76, 

 pp. 591-655. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. Fish iu California. <^Rod and Gun, vii, 1876, p. 326. 



Quoting the Sa7i Francisco Chronicle.— Motive and method of fish protection in onr waters 

 and along our coast. 



889. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. | Part 

 III. I Report I of | the Commissioner | for | 1873-4 and 1874-5. | — | A— In- 

 quiry into the decrease of the food-tishes. | B — The propagation of food- 

 fishes iu the waters | of the United States. | — | Washington : | Government 

 Printing Office. | 1876. 8vo. pp. (v) vi-xlvi. [U. S. F. C, 13.] 

 Report of Commissioner without supplemental papers. 



890. 



1876. Baird, Spencer F. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. | Part 

 III. I Report I of | the Commissioner | for | 1873-4 and 1874-5. | — | A.— In- 

 quiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. | B. — The propagation of food- 

 fishes in the waters | of the United States. | — | Washington : | Government 

 Printing Office. | 1876. 8vo. pp. lii, 777. [U. S. F. C, 13.] 



CONTENTS. 



KEPOKT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 



A.— Inquiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. 

 1. Investigations of 1873 



Reason for selecting Portland, Me., as base of operations . . 



Assistance rendered by the Navy Department 



The steam-tug Blue Light 



Associates in the inquiry 



Numbers of living forms found in the waters of the region. 



Mackerel, herring, and cod fisheries 



Fish-food 



Biological researches 



Physical researches 



Collections for scientific museums 



List of visitors at Peak's Island Station 



