ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT SERIES 
Since the beginning of the Administrative Report Series, considerable confu- 
sion has arisen concerning the system of numbering the separates composing it. 
Inasmuch as the Reports of the Divisions vary in order from year to year, many 
have found their designations as ‘‘Appendix No. I, II, II], or 1V”’ very confusing. 
To relieve this, it has been decided to number them as “Administrative Report 
No. —.” Inasmuch as 20 separates had already been printed in this series 
before starting the numbers, it was deemed advisable to begin the numbering 
with Administrative Report No. 21. Of course, numbers cannot be printed 
on those already off the press, but for the information of those who wish to know 
what the first 25 were, they are numbered for filing purposes as follows: 
No. 1. Report, Commissioner of Fisheries, 1931. 
No. 2. Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries, 1930. 
No. 3. Fishery Industries of the United States, 1930. 
No. 4. Progress in Biological Inquiries, 1939. 
No. 5. Propagation and Distribution of Food Fishes, 19381. 
No. 6. Report, Commissioner of Fisheries, 1932. 
No. 7. Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries, 1931. 
No. 8. Fishery Industries of the United States, 1931. 
No. 9. Progress in Biological Inquiries, 1931. 
No. 10. Propagation and Distribution of Food Fishes, 1932. 
No. 11. Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries, 1932. 
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. 12. Progress in Biological Inquiries, 1932. 
No. 13. Fishery Industries of the United States, 1932. 
No. 14. Propagation and Distribution of Food Fishes, 1933. 
No. 15. Fishery Industries of the United States, 1933. 
No. 16. Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries, 1933. 
No. 17. Progress in Biological Inquiries, 1933. 
No. 18. Propagation and Distribution of Food Fishes, 1934. 
No. 19. Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries, 1934. 
No. 20. Fishery Industries of the United States, 1934. 
No. 21. Progress in Biological Inquiries, 1934. 
No. 22. Propagation and Distribution of Food Fishes, 1935. 
No. 23. Alaska Fishery and Fur-Seal Industries, 1935. 
No. 24. Fishery Industries of the United States, 1935. 
No. 25. Propagation and Distribution of Food Fishes, 1936. 
Note that the last Commissioner’s Report was for 1932. Since then its place 
has been taken by a reprint from the report of the Secretary of Commerce under 
the title ‘‘Bureau of Fisheries.’”” Inasmuch as it is no longer a Bureau publication, 
it is not numbered; but it will be supplied to any who request the Report of the 
Commissioner for any year since 1932. 
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