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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



United States National Museum, 

 , Washiiigtoti, July IS, 1882. 



Sir: I have the liouor to transmit herewith, for approval and for publication, Section III of a 

 general work upon The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, consisting 

 of a description of the fishing grounds of Korth America, prepared by Capt. J. W. Collins, Mr. 

 Eichard Eathbuu, Mr. Silas Stearns, Prof. D. S. Jordan, Dr. T. H. Beau, Mr. F. W. True, and Mr. 

 Ludwig Kumlien. The work is edited by Mr. Richard Eathbun. It is the ouly report of the 

 kind ever written. It describes the locations, the characteristics, and the productiveness of the 

 numerous grounds resorted to by the fishermen of the United States, extending from Greenland to 

 Mexico, from Lower California to Alaska, and including the fishing grounds of the Great Lakes. 

 The accompauying charts illustrate the fishing grounds and the surface ocean temperatures of the 

 eastern coast of North America. 



I have the honor to be, very resjiectfully, your obedient servant, 



G. BROWN GOODE. 



Prof Spencer F. Baird, 



United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 



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