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XV. Coast of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, by Prof. 

 D. S. Jordan and C. H. Gilbert, from January, 1880, to January, 1881. 



XVI. Puget Sound, by James G. Swan, from January, 1880, to Jan- 

 uary, 1881. 



XVII. Alaska seal fisheries, by Dr. T. H. Bean, from June to Octo- 

 ber, 1880. 



XVIII. Great Lakes fishery, by Ludwig Kumlien, from August, 1879, 

 to August, 1880, 



XIX. Eiver fisheries of Maine, by C. G. Atkins, during 1880. 



XX. The shad and alewife fisheries, by Col. Marshall McDonald, from 

 October, 1879, to July, 1881. 



XXI. Ovster fisheries, by Ernest Ingersoll, from September, 1879, to 

 July, 1881. 



XXII. Lobster and crab fisheries, by Eichard Eathbun, from Jan- 

 uary, 1880, to July, 1881. 



XXIII. Turtle and terrapin fisheries, by 'F. W. True, from October, 

 1880, to July, 1881. 



XXIV. The seal, sea elephant, and whale fisheries, by A. Howard 

 Clark, from Xovember, 1880, to February, 1881. 



Eespectfully submitted. 



SPEXCEE F. BAIED, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



