240 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATE&- 



Re!!iiilt!^ of work. 



1. Eeports of the Commission. 



(United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Pakt III.) 



XXXIII. Section on the organs of reproduction and ihk 



FECUNDATION OF FISHES AND ESPECIALLY OF El'.LS. 



By Dr. Syvski. pp. 719-734. 



XXXIV. The food and mode of living of the Salmon, the 



Trout, and the Shad. By D. Barftutli. pp. I'.io-lijS, 

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

 OF the Commissioner for 1875-187G. A.— Inquiry into the decrease 

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

 waters of thi5 United States. Washington: Government Printiug- 

 Ottice. 1878. 8vo., pp. ix, 50, 1029, plates vi (Hist, of 'svhale lislieryj. 

 I. Report of the Commissioner. 

 A. — General considerations. 



1. Introductory remarks, p. 1. 



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



2. lNVESTIGAriONS_AND OPERATIONS OF 1875. p. 4. 



3. Investigations and operations of 1876. p. 7. 

 C. — The propagation of food-fishes. 



4. General considerations, p. 8. 



5. Actual work of propagation of food-fishes in 1875 



AND 1876. p. 20. 

 The shad. p. 20, 

 The California salmon, p. 21. 

 The Atlantic salmon, p. 25. 

 The land-locked salmon, p. 25. 

 The white-fish. p. 26. 

 The carp. p. 27. 

 D. — Tables. 



Table 7. — Hatching and distribution of fish by the 

 United States Fish Commission from the 

 beginning of its work in 1872 TO the sum- 

 AiER OF 1876. p. 28. 

 II. — Appendix to report of Commissioner. 

 Appendix A. — The sea fisheries. 



I. History of the American whale fishery from 

 its earliest inception to the year 1876. 

 By Alexander Starbnck. 

 Appendix B. — The inland fisheries. 



II. Fisheries of Chicago and vicinity. By E. W. 

 Nelson, p. 783. 

 "HI. The salmon fisheries of the Columbia RnF.u. 



By Livingston Stone, p. 801. 

 IV. Notes on some fisheries of the Delawai:e. 



River. By Dr. C. C. Abbott, p. 825. 

 V. Method of purifying the residuum of gas- 

 works BEFORE ALLOWING IT TO PASS OFF INTO 

 THE WATER. By J. R.<?hotwell. p. 847. 

 VI. Tables of temperatures of air and water at 

 sundry stations of the united states signal. 

 Office, from March, 1874, to February, 1875, 

 AND FROM March, 1876, to February, 1877^ 

 inclusive, p. 851. 



