REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 19 
PUBLICATIONS. 
There have been added to the library during the year 164 books and 
288 unbound volumes and pamphlets. Besides the bound report for 
1899, the folowing pamphlet extracts from the reports for 1899 and 1900 
and the bulletin for 1899 have been published: 
Description of two new species of darters from Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana, by 
B. W. Evermann. Report for 1899, pp. 363-369. 
The sturgeon fishery of Delaware River and Bay, by John N.Cobb. Report for 
1899, pp. 369-380. 
Report of the Commissioner for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, by G. M. 
Bowers. Report for 1899, pp. VII-CLXII1. 
The gas-bubble disease of fish, and its cause, by F. P. Gorham. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. 33-37. 
The clam problem and clam culture, by J. L. Kellogg. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 39-44. 
Description of new species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands, belonging to the 
families of _Labride and Scaride, by O. P. Jenkins. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. 45-65. 
Rotatoria of the United States, with special reference to those of the Great Lakes 
region, by H. S. Jennings. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 67-104. 
A report of work on the protozoa of Lake Erie, with special reference to the laws 
of their movements, by H.S. Jennings. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 105-114. 
Note: on a collection of fishes from the rivers of Mexico, with description of 
twenty new species, by D. S. Jordan and J. O. Snyder. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. 115-147. 
Notes on the Florida sponge fishery in 1899, by H. M. Smith. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. 149-151. 
Chemical changes in the developing fish egg, by P. A. Levene. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. 153-155. , 
The free-swimming copepods of the Woods Hole region, by W. M. Wheeler. 
Bulletin for 1899, pp. 157-192. 
Observations on the life history of the common clam, by James L. Kellogg. Bul- 
letin for 1899, pp. 193-202. 
Natural history of the starfish, by A. D. Mead. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 203-224, 
Movements of certain lobsters liberated at Woods Hole, by H. C. Bumpus. Bul- 
letin for 1899, pp. 225-230. 
Improvements in preparing fish for shipment, by R. W. Tower. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. 231-235. 
Report of a dredging expedition off the southern coast of New England, by Free- 
land Howe. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 237-240. 
Lobster fishery of Maine, by John N. Cobb. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 241-265. 
Fish parasites collected at Woods Hole in 1898, by Edwin Linton. Bulletin for 
1899, pp. 267-304. 
Biological notes from Wools Hole. - Bulletin for 1899, pp. 305-310. 
Skeleton of the black bass, by R. W. Shufeldt. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 311-320. 
Chemical composition of subdermal connective tissue of ocean sun-fish, by E. H. 
Green. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 321-324. 
Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1900, by George M. 
Bowers. Report for 1900, pp. 1-191. 
Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico by United States 
Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk. General report, fisheries and fish 
trade and the fishes of Porto Rico. 
A method of recording egg development for use of fish-culturists, by Claudius 
Wallich. Report for 1900, pp. 185-194. 
Statistics of the fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States, by C. H. Townsend. Re- 
port for 1900, pp. 195-810. 
Statistics of the fisheries of the New England States, byC. H. Townsend. Report 
for 1900, pp. 311-386. 
The pp fea of the Woods Hole region, by C. C. Nutting. Bulletin for 1899, pp. 
o20- F 
Descriptions of fifteen new species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands, by Oliver 
P. Jenkins. Bulletin for 1899, pp, 387-404. 
Parasites a ar of the Woods Hole region, by Edwin Linton. Bulletin for 1899, 
pp. —4¢ 2. 
There have been distributed during the year 1,213 bound and 12,112 
pamphlet publications of the Commission. 
