238 ANIMAL KESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



tSe<^iil(<!i of'uork. 



1. Eeports of the Commission. 



(United States Commission of Fish and Fisiir.niEs. Part II.) 



XXXI. TemperatcPvE in the Gulf of Mexico, fiiom kecords 

 of the United Sta'itvS Coast Survey, pp. 745-748. 

 XXX II. Correspondence with companies relative to facil- 

 ities in transportation, etc. pp. 749-7."jG. 



XXXIII. Reports of special conferences with American 



Fisu-Culturists' Association and State Commis- 

 sioners OF Fisheries, p. 757. 



A. Mt'ctiug at Boston, June I'.i, 1872. pp. 757-7G'2. 



B. MeetiugatXew York, October 17, 1872. jtp. 703-773. 



XXXIV. Bibliography of Reports of Fishery Com.missions. 



By Theotlore Gill. pp. 7(34-773. 



A. X'anies of Coiuniissiouers. p. 774. 



B. Bibliography of reports, pp. 775-784. 

 List of illustrations. i>p. 785-790. 



General index. i». 791. 

 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III.— Report 

 of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5. A. — Inquiry into the 



DECREASE OF THE FOOD-FISHES. B. — THE PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES 



IN THE WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES. By Spencer F. Bair«l, Coinniis- 

 siouer. Washington : Government Priuting-Office. 1876. 



iVl'PENDIX A. — SeA-FISHERIES AND JHE FISHES AND INVERTEBRATES 

 USED AS FOOD. 



I. Historical observations on the condition of the 



FISHERIES AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS 

 AND THEIR MODE OF SALTING AND PACKING FISH. By 



J. K. Smiillo. ]ip. 1, 2. 

 II. Statistics of the most important fisiii:p>ies of the 

 North Atlantic By Carl Dambeck. pp. 3-24. 



III. On the fisheries of Norway, pp. 24-30. 



IV. Statistical data regarding the Swedish fisheries. 



pp. 31-34. 

 V. Account of the fisheries and Seal-hunting in thh 

 White Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and thi: Caspian 

 Sea. By Alexaniler Schultz. pp. 35, 9(). 

 VI. The Norwegian Herring-fisheries. By A. J. Breck 



ami A. Faildenlin. pp. 97-122. 



VII. Preliminary Reih)RT for 1-'73-'74 ox the Herring 



AND Tin; Herring-fisheries on the west coast of 



Sweden. By Axel Vilhelra Sjninginan. pp. 123-l()8. 



VIII. The Halibut fisheries of the United States. By 



Lieut. P. Do Broca. pp. ir>9-172. 



IX. The fishing villages Snikkerstun and Skolterup, 



AND THE collection OF FISHING IMPLEMENTS EX- 

 HIBITED BY THEM .\T El.SINORE, DENMARK. DURING 

 THE SUM.MER OF 1872. pi>. 17:J-182. 



X. On the Herring and its pimcparation as an articljc 

 OF TRADE. By Hyalniar Widigner. pp. 183-192. 

 XI. New contributions to the Herring question — Thk 



DISPUTE BETWEEN AXEL BGXK AND OSSLVN SaRH 

 , REGAltDlNG THE NORWEGIAN SU.MMER IlKRRINCr-- 



Sars' recent observations and his new theory 



ON THE migration OF THI-: HERRING, pp. 193-194. 



