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" Trefoil, blue," shad {Alosa fiapidissima). 



"Diamond, greeu," carp [Ci/prinus carpio). 



"Maltese cross," stations for liatchinjij or investigation. 



The date of the establishment ol" each State commission is indicated 

 by conspicuous tijiiures. 



The locations of stations are indicated by conspicuous numbers, the 

 explanation of which is given in the following table : 



LIST OF HATCHING AND ZOOLOGICAL STATIONS. 



1. — U. S. Zoological Station Eastport, Me., 1872. 



2.— U. S. Zoological Station, Portland, Me., 187:5. 



3._U. S. Hatching Station, Grand Lake Stream, Maine. Salmo scbago. 



4._U. S. Hatching Station, Bncksport, Mc. Sulmo mlar. 



5._U. S. Zoological 'Station, Gloncester, Mass., 1878. 



5. u. S. Hatching t^tation, Gloucester, Mass., (iadus morrhua. 



6._U. S. Zoological Station, Salem, Mass., 1»77. 



7._U. S. Zoological Station, Piovincetown, Mass., 1879. 



8._U. S. Zoological Station, Wood's H(dl, 1871-75. 



9._U. S. Zoological Station, Noank, Conn., 1874. 

 10._U. S. Hatching Station, Holyoke, Mass. Alosa sapidissima. 

 ll._U. S. Hatching Station, Baltimore, Md. Cyprinus carpio. 

 12._U. s. Hatching Station, Havre de Grace, Md. Alosa sapidissima. 

 13._U. S. Hatching Station, Washington, D. C. Cyprinus carpio. 

 14._U. S. Hatching Station, Freestone Pt., Va. Alosa sapidissima. 

 15. _U. S. Hatching Station, Avoca, N. C. Alosa sapidissima. 

 IG.—U. S. Hatching Station, Baird, Cal. Salmo Quinnat. 

 17._U. S. Hatching Station, near Baird, Cal. Salmo irideus. 

 18. _U. S. Hatching Station, Clackamas River, Oregon. Salmo quinnat. 

 19._U. S. Zoological Station, Halifax, N. S., 1877. 

 20.— Maine Hatching Station, Rangeley Lake. 

 2l._Xew Hampshire Hatching Station at Plymouth. 

 22.— Massachusetts Hatching Station at Winchester. 

 o3._]srew York Han-hing Station at Caledonia. 

 24.— New York Hatching Station at Coxsackio. Alosa sapidissima. 

 25.— Pennsylvania Hatching Station at Marietta. 

 26.— Pennsylvania Hatching Station at Corry (Erie County). 



larger features of the physical geography and other statistics of the United States to 

 accompanvsomcof the governmental exhibits in the International Exhibition of 187b, 

 at Philadelphia, wherein are deposited several of these maps by the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, the Agricultural Department, the Light-House Board, and the Post-Othce 



Department. „. . i tt i »„ 



The entire map extends from the southern shores of Lake Umnipeg and Hudson s 



Bay to the parallel of 1.50-taking in the whole of the Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan, and 



the larger West India Islands. ti i 



From east to west it includes parts of Nova Scotia and ot Vancouver Island. 



The territory of Alaska is shown on a smaller scale, detached, in a vacant corner of 



'^T^Xtails are restricted to the general leatures-the shore-lines of tlje oceans and 

 great lakes, the principal rivers. State and international boundaries, and a few ot the 

 farc^er citi s. The mountain-topography is not (litho-pnnted) on the B^^eets bu 

 adc!ed by haud-the meri.lians and parallels being laid ,lown from a computed 

 projection. 



