XVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 



A further examiuatiou will be made during the dry summer season, to 

 determine if the water supply will be sufticient at all times of tbe year. 



Further investigations with reference to the selection of a fish-cultural 

 station in the State of New Hampshire, authorized by an act approved 

 March 2, 1895, were made in December and January, and as soon as an 

 examiuatiou during the dry season can be completed a site will be 

 definitely selected and the construction of the station begun. 



Necessary alterations and additions to the machinery of the Commis- 

 sion have been made under the direction of the naval engineer, who 

 also prei^ared drawings and specifications for new boilers for the steamer 

 Fish HmcTc. This ofQce also prepared plans for the pumps aud other 

 machinery for the exhibit of the Commission at the Nashville Exposi- 

 tion aud superintended the installation of the jdaut. 



During the year the bound Bulletin for 1896, the bound reports of the 

 Commission for the years 1893, 1894, and 1895, and the report for 1890 in 

 pamphlet form were issued, and, in addition, the following pamphlet 

 extracts from the Eeports for 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896, and the Bulletin 

 for 1896: 



Report of the Commissioner for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, including the 

 rejiorts on the divisions of iish-cnltnre, scientific inquiry, and fisheries, by Mar- 

 shiill MfDonald. Report for 1894, xx, pp. 1-175. 1896. 



The Russian fur-seal islands, by Leonard Stejneger. Bulletin for 1896, xvi, pp. 1-148, 

 plates 1-66. 1896. 



Remarks on the movements and breeding-grounds of the fur-seal, based on observa- 

 tions made while on the United States naval patrol of Bering Sea in 1894, by 

 John J. Brice. Report for 1894, xx, pp. 573-577. 



A report upon salmon investigations in the headwaters of the Columbia River, in 

 the State of Idaho, in 1895; together with notes uiiou the fishes observed in that 

 State in 1894 and 1895, by Barton W. Evermann. Bulletin for 1896, xvi, pp. 

 149-202, plates 67-72. 



The artificial propagation of the rainbow trout, by George A. Seagle. Bulletin for 



1896, XAI, pp. 237-256, plates 88-94. 1896. 

 .The artificial i)ropagation of salmon on the Pacific Coast of the United States, with 

 notes on the natural history of the ([uinnat salmon, by Livingston Stone. Bul- 

 letin for 1896, xxi, pp. 203-235, plates 73-87. 



Report upon the o])erations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross for the 

 year ending June 30, 1894, by Z. L. Tanner and F. J. Drake. Report for 1894, 

 XX, pp. 197-278, plates 6-8. 1896. 



Description of a closing tow net for submarine use at all depths, by C. H. Town- 

 send. Report for 1894, xx, pp. 279-282, plates 9, 10. 1896. 



The whitefishes of North America, bv Barton W. Evermann and Hugh M, Smith. 

 Report for 1894, xx, pp. 283-324, plates 11-28. 1896. 



A report upon the fishes of the Missouri River Basin, by Barton W. Evermann and 

 Ulysses O. Cox. Report for 1894, xx, pp. 325-429. 1896. 



A review of the foreign fishery trade of the United States, by Charles H. Stevenson. 

 Report for 1894, xx, pp. 431-571. 1896. 



The ichthyological collections of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross 

 during thel years 1890 and 1891, by Charles H. Gilbert. Report for 1893, xix, 

 pp. 393-476, plates 20-35. 1896. 



An annotated catalogue of the fishes known from the State of Vermont, by Barton 

 W. Evermann and W. C. Kendall. Report for 1894, xx, pp. .579-604. 



A report upon the fishes of southwestern Minnesota, by Ulysses 0. Cox. Report for 

 1894, XX, pp. 605-616. 1896. 



List of publications of the U. S. Comnussion of Fish and Fisheries from its estab- 

 lishment, in 1871, to February, 1896, by Charles W. Scudder. Report for 1894, 

 XX, pp. 617-706. 1896. 



Deep-sea explorations: A general description of the steamer Albatross, her appli- 

 ances and methods, by Z. L. Tanner. Bulletin for 1896, xvi, pp. 257-428, plates 

 i-XL. 1897. 



Report of the Commissioner for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, including the 

 reports on the divisions of fish-culture, scientific inquiry, and fisheries, by Mar- 

 shall McDonald. Report for 1895, xxi, pp. 1-123. 1896. 



