240 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATE&. 



Result** ol* work. 



1. lieports of the Commission. 



(United States Commission of Fish and Fisiikhiks. Paki' III.) 



XXXIII. Si:cnoN t)N the okgaxs ok kepkodlction and hik 



EECUNDATION t)E I'l.SHES AND ICSI'ECIALI.Y OE Ki:i..S. 



15.V Dr. Syvski. pp. 719-7:54. 



XXX1\'. The food and mode of i.iviNt; of the .Salmon, hie 



TlioUT, .VND THE .SiiAD. IJy D. Barfiiith. pp. 7;io-7.".d. 



United States Commission of Fish and Fisheuies. Part IV. — Report 



OF THE Commissioner for 1875-187G. A. — Inquiry into the decrea.se- 



OP THE FOOD-FISIIES. B. — TlIE PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES IN I II 10. 

 WATERS OF THio UNITED STATES. Washinytou: GoveiTiiiient Printing- 

 Office. 1876. 8vo., pp. ix, 50, 1029, plates vi (Ilist. of whale lisherv >. 

 I. Report of the Commissioner. 

 A. — General considerations. 



1. Introductory REMARKS, p. 1. 

 B. — Inquiry into the decrease of food-fishes. 



'2. Investigations and operations of 1875. p. 4. 



3. Investigations and operations of 187tJ. p. 7. 

 C. — The propagation of food-fishes. 



4. General considerations, p. 8. 



5. Actual work of propagation of food-fishes in 1875- 



AND 187G. ]). 20. 

 The shatl. p. 20. 

 The California salmon. ]>. 21. 

 The Atlantic salmon, j). 25. 

 The l.'iiul-loeketl salmon, p. 25. 

 The white-lish. p. 20. 

 The carp. p. 27. 

 D.— Tables. 



Table 7. — Hatching and distribution of fish by ihe 

 United States Fisir Commis.sion from the 



beginning of its work in 1872 TO THE SUM- 

 MER OF 187G. p. 28. 

 II.— Appendix to report of Commissioner. 

 Appendix A. — The sea fisheries. 



I. History of the American whale fishery from 



ITS EARLIEST INCEPTION TO THE YEAIulfCG. 

 ]?y Ah'xander Starltnck. 

 Appendix B. — The inland fisheries. 



H. Fisheries of Chicago and vicinity. By E. W. 

 Nelson, p. 783. 



III. The SALOMON fisheries of the Ct>I.UMBI\ K'lVllC. 



By Livingston Stone, p. 801. 



IV. Notes on some fisheries of the Delawauk 



River. By Dr. C. C. Abbott, p. 825. 

 V. Method of purifying the residuum of gas- 

 works BEFORE ALLOWINCi IT TO PASS OUr INTO 

 THE WATER. By J. Iv. Shotwell. p. 847. 



VI. Tables OF TEMPERATURES of air and water at 

 sundry stations of the United .^ta rEs Signal 

 Office, from March, 1^74, to February, 1S75, 

 AND FROM March, 187(i, to February. 1877, 

 inclusive, p. !r51. 



