234 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Rei§iiilts of ivork. 



1. Eeports of the CommissioD. 



(United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part I.) 



III. Testimony in regard to the present condition' of 



THE fisheries, TAKEN IN 1871. pp. 7-72. 



IV. Special arguments in regard to regulating the 



SEA-FISUERIES BY LAW. pp. 73-103. 



V. Reports of State commissions in regard to regu- 

 lating the sea-fisheries, pp. 104-124. 

 VI. Report of conference of the United States Com- 

 missioner with the commissioners of Rhode Isl- 

 and AND Massachusetts, held October 5, 1871. pji. 

 125-131. 

 VII. Draught of law proposed for the consideration 

 of, and enactment by, the legislatures of Mas- 

 sachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, pp. 

 132-134. 

 VIII. Miscellaneous correspondence and communications 

 on the subject of the sea-fisheries, pp. 134-138. 

 IX. European authorities on the subject of regulat.- 



ING THE fisheries BY LAW. pp. 139-148. 



X. Notices in regard to the abundance of fish on the 



New England coast in former times. x'P- 149-172. 



XI. Statistics of fish and fisheries on the south 



shore of New England, pj). 173-181. 

 XII. Supplementary testimony and information rela- 

 tive to the condition of the fisheries of the 

 SOUTH side of New England, taken in 1872. pp. 

 182-195. 



XIII. Pleadings before the senate committee on fish- 



eries of the Rhode Island legislature, at its- 

 January session of 1872. pp. 196-227. 



XIV. Natural history of some of the more imi>ortant 



food-fishes of the south shore of New England, 

 (viz: the Scup (Stenofomus argijrops), and the Blue-fisb 

 I (Pomatomus sallatrix). pp. 228-252. 



XV. Description of apparatus used in capturing fish 



ON THE sea-coast AND LAKES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



' pp. 253-274, Avith 19 (1-19) tigs., aud lA. (maps) xxxix 



and xl, aud large folded map. 

 XVI. List of patents gr.\^ted by the United States to 



THE END OF 1872 FOR INVENTIONS CONNECTED WITH 

 THE CAPTURE, UTILIZATION, OR CULTIVATION OF FISH 

 AND MARINE ANIMALS, pp. 275-280. 



XVII. List op the sea- weeds or m.\rine ALGiE of the 



SOUTH coast of NeW ENGLAND. By W. G. Farlow, 

 M. D. pp. 281-294. 

 XVIII. Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vine- 

 yard Sound and the adjacent waters, aviih ajx 

 account of the physical character of the re- 

 GION. By A. E. Verrill. pp. 295-778, with pi. i-xxxviii. 



