^23 8 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



He!iiiilt8 of ^vork. 



1. Eeports of the Commission. 



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



XXXI. Temperature in the Gulf of Mexico, from records 

 OF THE United Sta'ies Coast Survey, pp. 745-748. 

 XXXII. Correspondence with companies relative to facil- 

 ities IN transportation, etc. pp. 749-756. 



XXXIII. Reports of special conferences with American 



FiSH-CULTURlSTS' ASSOCIATION AND STATE COMMIS- 

 SIONERS OF Fisheries, p. 757. 



A. Meeting at Boston, June 13, 1872. pp. 757-762. 



B. MeetingatNewYork, October 17, 1872. pp. 763-773. 



XXXIV. Bibliography of Reports of Fishery Commissions. 



By Theodore Gill. pp. 764-773. 



A. Names of Commissioners, p. 774. 



B. Bibliograpliy of reports, pp. 775-784. 

 List of ilix'strations. pp. 785-790. 



General index, p. 791. 

 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. — Report 

 of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5. A. — Inquiry into the 

 decrease of the food-fishes. B. — The propagation of food-fishes 

 IN the waters of the United States. By Spencer F. Baird, Commis- 

 sioner. Washington : Government Priuting-Office. 1876. 

 Appendix A. — Sea-fisheries and thi: fishes and invertebrates 

 USED as food. 

 I, Historical observ.'VTIons on the condition of the 



FISHERIES AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS 

 AND THEIR MODE OF SALTING AND PACKING FISH. By 



J. K. Smidlo. pp. 1, 2. 

 II. Statistics of the most important fisheries of the 

 North Atlantic. By Carl Dambeck. pp. 3-24. 



III. On the fisheries of Norway, pp. 24-30. 



IV. Statistical data regarding the Swedish- fisheries. 

 , pp. 31-34. 



V. Account of the fisheries and Seal-hunting in thh 

 White Sea, the Arctic Oqean, and the Caspi.\n 

 Sea. By Alexander Schiiltz. pp. 35, 96. 

 VI. The Norwegl\n Herring-fisheries. By A. J. Breck 



and A. Fadderdiu. pp. 97-122. 



VII. Preliminary Report for 1873-74 on the Herring 



AND THE Herring-fisheries on the west coast of 



Sweden. By Axel Vilhelm Springman. pp. 1^3-168. 



VIII. The Halibut fisheries of the United States. By 



Lieut. P. De Broea. pp. 169-172. 



IX. The fishing villages Snikkerstux and Skolterup, 



AND THE COLLECTION OF FISHING IMPLEMENTS EX- 

 HIBITED BY THEM AT ElSINORE, DENMARK, DURING 

 • THE SUMMER OF 1872. pp. 173-182. 



X. On the Herrlxg and its preparation as an ahticle 

 OF TRADE. By Hyaimar Widigner. pp. 183-192. 

 XI. New contributions to the Herring question — The 



DISPUTE BETWEEN AXEL BffiCK AND OSSIAN SaR". 

 REGARDING THE NORWEGIAN SUMMER HERRING- - 

 SaRS' RECENT OBSERVATIONS AND HIS NEW THEORY 

 ON THE MIGRATION OF THE HERRING, pp. 193-194. 



