160 PUBLICATIONS OF SPENCER F. BAIED. 



1874. Baird, Spencer F.— Continued. 



B. On the stomachs of salmon and their contents 



1. On the cffical appendases of tho stomach. By James K. 



Thatcher 



2. On the contents ot the stomach. By S. I. Smith 



C. On the silver-trout of Monadnock Lake. By Thomas E. Hatch, 



M. D 



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



Throckmorton 



E. On the salmon fisheries of the Sacramento River. By Livingston 



Stone 



1. Drift-net fishing 



2. Fyke-net fishing 



3. Sweep-seine fishing 



XIV. Additional reports relative to the hatching and planting of the Pen- 

 obscot salmon 



A. New Hampshire 



B. New Jersey 



C. Pennsylvania 



E. "Wisconsin 



Appendix C. — The shad and alowife (species of Clupeida)) 



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

 ducing shad into the Alabama River 



XVI. Letters referring to the presence of shad in the rivers tributary to 



the Gulf of Mexico 



XVll. Report of a reconnaissance of the shad-rivers south of the Potomac. 

 By H. C. Yarrow, M. D 



1. Introductory remarks 



2. Great decrease of fish in Georgia 



3. Decrease in North Carolina 



4. Contrivances that capture all the fish 



JLVJXL. Report on shad-hatching operations 



A. Operations in 1872 



B. Operations in 1873 



1. The Savannah, Neuse, and Roanoke Rivers 



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



3. Report on the tho transfer of shad from the Hudson to the 



Sacramento River. By Livingston Stone 



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



of Maine. By E. M. Stillwell 



XIX. Report on the propagation of the shad {Alosa sapidissima), and its 

 introduction into new waters by the United States Com- 

 missioner in 1873. By James "W. Milner 



1. Shad-hatching an important discovery 



2. Plan of operations 



3. Operations on the S.avannah, Neuse, and Roanoke Rivers 



4. Operations on the Potomac 



Table— Shad-hatching on the Potomac River, Jackson City, 

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



5. Methods employed in shad-hatching 



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



of shad 



7. The ovaries and ova of the shad 



8. The male fish - 



9. The impregnation of shad eggs 



10. The Susquehanna, Delaware, and Hudson Rivers 



11. Journal ofatripwith shad and eels to Calumet River, Illinois.. 



12. Shipment of sha^l and eels to the Fox River, Wisconsin 



13. Shipment of shad to Ashtabula River, Ohio 



14. Shipment of shad to the "Wabash River, Indiana 438 



15. Shipment of shad to the waters of Lake Champlain, Vermont. 439 



16. Shipment of shad to the Honsatonic River, Connecticut. 439 



17. Shipmpnt of shad to the Penobscot River, Maine 440 



18. Establishment of station on the Androscoggin River, Maine . . 440 



19. Second shipment of shad to the waters of Lake Champlain, 



Vermont 441 



