180 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



EESULTS OF WORK. 



1. Publications of the Commission — Continued. 



Appendix D— Continued. 



XXI. Tho history of fish culture — Continued. 



C. ItfiJort on llit^ .state of pisciculture in France 



and the neighboring countries. By 



M. Bouchon-Brandely, assistant sec- Page. 



retary of the College of France 513 



1. Introductory remarks 513 



2. Switzerland 514 



3. Italy 518 



4. Austria 518 



5. Munich 520 



6. The great basins of France 522 



D. The progress of fish-culture in the United 



States. By James "W". Milner 523 



1. Tho methods employed in fish-culture . . 523 



2. Transfer of living fishes 524 



The pike or pickerel 524 



The muskellunge 524 



The black bass and Oswego bass 525 



The wall-eyed or glass-eyed pike 520 



The eel 52G 



The alewife 527 



The smelt 527 



The white-fish 527 



The salmon or lake trout 528 



The brook-trout 528 



3. Tho transfer of naturall J- deposited eggs. 528 

 Spawning-races 528 



4. Artificial fecundation 530 



Introductory remarks 530 



The brook-trout 535 



The salmon 538 



The shad 543 



The white fish 545 



The Otsego bass 55'2 



The salmon trout 552 



The striped bass 553 



List of .species in North America and 



Euroije which have been hitched 

 artificially 554 



List of hybrids in Europe and America 



which have been hatched 555 



Advances in fish-culture of American 



origin 555 



Systematic records of observation re- 

 quired for rapid advancement in the 

 .art 558 



E. Alphabetical list of American flsh-culturists 



and of persons known as being in- 

 terested in fish-culture 558 



1. Names of persons who are or have been 



practically engaged in fish-culture. 558 



2. Listof persons interested in the subject 561 

 XXH. Papers relating to practical fish-culture 567 



A. method of treating adhesive eggs of certain 



fishes, especially of Cyprinidre, in ar- 

 tificial propagation. By Rudolph 

 Hessel 



B. On the so-called "dry'' method of impregnat- 



ing spawn. By Alexander Stenzel, 

 inspector of fisheries in Silesift, 

 Germany 571 



