EXPLANATORY NOTE. 



The bibliography is composed of two styles of titles, those given just as they appear 

 in the publications and those resulting from the analysis of each article. For the first 

 style, cards have been printed by the Library of Congress from copy prepared in this 

 Biu-eau. These cards may be purchased from the Library of Congress, the card 

 wanted to be designated by the call number, which appears in the right-hand margin 

 of each page. The second style, or "made titles," are designated by brackets and 

 have no printed cards. 



The arrangement under each subject is by authors listed alphabetically. The 

 arrangement under each author is chronological. 



Work or investigations covered in the annual report of the Commissioner are com- 

 bined under the authorship of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries. To give 

 the name of the Commissioner sponsoring the work would frequently destroy the 

 chronological arrangement. For those who may care to cite the Commissioner's name 

 the following list is given : 



Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1871-1887. 



Goode, G. Brown, 1887-1888. 



McDonald, Marshall, 1888-1895. 



Gill, Herbert A. (acting), 1895-1896. 



Brice, John J., 1896-1898. 



Bowers, George M., 1898-1913. 



Smith, HughM., 1913- 

 For the purpose of chronological arrangement, divisional reports are given under 

 the authorship of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



In anaylzing reports (meaning also appendixes and special papers) and bulletins, 

 the analysis in each case has been of the bound volume, and the date of issue given 

 for each title is therefore that of the volume. In the majority of cases, however, 

 the articles comprising the bound volume are first issued as separates. In all such 

 instances, in addition to the date of issue of the volume, the date of issue of the 

 article as a separate is given in italics. The one exception is in the treatment of 

 the annual reports, page 7, where the date of issue of the separate only is given. 



Being an analysis of publications of the Bureau of Fisheries only, which are always 

 printed in Washington and, with few exceptions, by the Government Printing 

 Office, the place of publication is omitted in every case, and the printer given only 

 in the exceptions. 



