CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE. 



161 



1874. B.IRP, SPENCKK ^;^^:;;-f;,^,,„,,,^,,„,..,arandEivers,MicM.an. p.J41 



Table of distribution of shad and eels 



21 Mode of estimating number of eggs and fish 



22. The care of the young shad during transportation **^ 



a. The apparatus ^^ 



h. The care of the flsh ^^^ 



c. Water adapted to young fish 



d. Temperature of the water in the cans 



e. Transferring the shad from the cans to the river 447 



/ Facilities required from the railroads 4 



23. Possibility of stocking the great lakes with shad 



04. Popularity of the work of the Commission 



XX. Notes on the natural history of the shad and alewife . - - . .^- - _^- - -- - - 



A Notes on the shad as observed in Beaufort Harbor. N. C, and 



vicinity. By H.C. Yarrow, M.D •^■V^' 



B. Notes on the shad as observed in the Delaware River. By J. H. ^^^ 

 Slack,M.D ^^,j 



1. The importance of shad as a food-fish ^^^ 



2. The decrease in the Delaware ^^^ 



3. The causes of decrease ^^g 



o. Erection of dams ^^g 



h. Destruction of fry ^^^ 



c. Destruction of seed-fishes ^^^ 



' d. Destruction of impregnated ova 



4. Habits of shad in the spawning season .' V " ' Jxr " ' 



C. The shad and gaspereau, or alewife, of New Brunswick and Nova 



Scotia. By Charles Lanman ^^^ 



1. Theshad ■ 4g2 



2. The gaspereau, or alewife ',"".,"'", ari 



APPENDIX D.-rish-culture (the history, theory, and practice of fish-culture) 463 



XXI. The history offish-culture :'"".: ,'•" V^l^«r-i +/. 



A. The history of fish-culture in Europe, from its earbest record to ^^^ 



1854. By Jules Haime • • - •■;■-■ 



B. Eeport on the progress of pisciculture in Russia. By Theodore ^^^ 



Soudakevicz ^gg 



1. The decrease of food-fishes ^^^ 



2. Pisciculture ^g,^ 



3. Selection ofmale and female fish ^^^ 



4. The fecundation of spawn ^g^ 



5. The incubation of spawn ;'.""V« I' -im 



6. Developemeut of the embryo and the hatching of fish 5W 



7. Transportation of spawn 



8. Piscicultural establishment at Nikolsky ^^^ 



9. Piscicultural establishment at Suwalki ^^^ 



10. Pisciculture at Finland Vl^""' 'ixl'' 



C. Report on the state of pisciculture in France and the neighbor- 

 ing countries. By M. Douchon-Brandley, assistant sec- 

 retary of the College of France ^^^ 



1. Introductory remarks ^^^ 



2. Switzerland gjg 



3- Italy ''"' 518 



4. Austria ■■■'■ 520 



5. Munich 522 



6. The great basins of France •--••- ■•• 



D. The progress of fish-culture in the United States. By J^mes W. ^^^ 



Milner 52^ 



1. The methods employed in fish-culture ^^^ 



2. Transfer of living fishes ^^4 



The pike or pickerel 524 



The muskeUunge 525 



The black bass and Oswego bass ^^^ 



The wall-eyed or glass-eyed pike ^^^ 



The eel | 527 



The alewife '''^^ 52^ 



The smelt "•• "* ...."•■• 



11 BD 



