306 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
CATALOGUE 
PORTRAITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS. 
Spencer F. Barrp, Commissioner, 1871-1887. 
G. Brown Gooner, Commissioner, 1887-88. 
MarsHatt McDonaLp, Commissioner, 1888-1895. 
J. J. Brice, Commissioner, 1896-1898. 
Grorce M. Bowers, Commissioner, 1898 to the present time. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
Reports of U. 8. Fish Commission from 1871 to 1900. 
Bulletins, U. 8S. Fish Commission. 
Fishery Industries of the United States, 5 volumes, by G. Brown Goode and 
associates. 
Fishes of North and Middle America, 4 volumes. 
DIVISION OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY. 
VESSELS AND APPARATUS FOR Drrp-sSEA, PELAGIC, AND SHORE INVESTIGATIONS. 
Model of the Albatross: 
The steamer Albatross was built expressly for marine exploration, and intended 
especially for investigating the offshore fisheries and fishing-grounds of the United 
States. It is an iron twin-screw steamer, and was built in 1882 by the Pusey & Jones 
Company, of Wilmington, Del. 
General dimensions: Length, over all, 234 feet; at 12-foot water line, 200 feet; 
breadth of beam, 27 feet 6 inches; displacement, on 12-foot draft, 1,000 tons; registered 
tonnage, net, 400 tons. 
The deck house is 83 feet in length, 13 feet 6 inches wide, and 7 feet 3 inches from 
deck to deck. It is built of iron from the funnels aft, and sheathed with wood inside 
and out, with iron storm doors, but from the funnel forward it is of wood. Begin: 
ning aft in the iron house, the following apartments have been set off, viz., first, 
entrance to wardroom stairway; second, upper engine room; third, galley; fourth, 
steam-drum room. 
In the wooden part: first, two staterooms for civilian scientific staff; second, upper 
laboratory, 14 feet in length, the width of the house and lighted in daytime by two 
windows and a door on each side and a skylight overhead; this room contains a 
central work-table, three hinged tables, a sink with alcohol and water tanks attached, 
and wall cases for books and apparatus; third, chart room, the width of the house, 8 
feet 6 inches in length, containing chart table, locker for charts, book-shelves, berth, 
sofa, etc.; fourth, two staterooms at forward end of deck house. The pilot house is 
over the forward end of the deck house. 
Abaft the steerage, but separated from it by an iron bulkhead, is the lower labora- 
tory, immediately below the upper laboratory, through which it is entered. This 
room extends quite across the ship, is 20 feet long, 7 feet 10 inches in height between 
decks, and is lighted in daytime by six 8-inch side lights, two 12-inch deck lights, 
and the hatch at the head of the stairway. Ample storage cases and lockers are pro- - 
vided for alcohol jars and specimens; long worktables are placed on each side; in one 
corner is the photographic dark room, with a large lead-lined sink with running 
water; in another is the medical dispensary, and across the aft end is a storage 
room. Below this room is the main scientific storeroom, a closed iron box capable 
of being isolated from the rest of the ship and filled with steam at short notice in 
case of fire. Here are stored alcohol, specimens, nets, etc., for which lockers have 
been provided. 
Model of the Fish Hawk: 
The steamer Fish Hawk is a twin-secrew propeller of 205.71 tons measurement; is 
rigged as a fore-and-aft schooner, with pole topmasts, and constructed for the com- 
bined purpose of fish-hatching and exploration. She was designed by Charles W. 
