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of this information. While the Canadians possessed the fullest data on 

 the subject of the fisheries, as the result of many years inquiry, the 

 United States had nothing whatever but what was gathered with spec- 

 ial reference to the emergency. The results gathered in connection 

 with the census of 1880 will, it is hoped, be tabulated and published by 

 the time this is needed for diplomatic use, and it will be of inestimable 

 advantage in strengthening any position that the American Government 

 may take in reference to the nature of the American fisheries. 



Respectfully submitted. 



SPENCER F. BAIRD, 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



Washington, D. C, January, 1880. 



