Q U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



The Reclamation Service with the assistance of the Bureau is under- 

 taking increased activities in protecting fisheries from irrigation 

 projects. The Federal Power Commission is supporting the Bureau's 

 efforts to provide suitable fish protection on all projects constructed 

 under license from that agency in accordance with law. The Bureau 

 has been able also to extend its cooperation with the Indian Service 

 in the development and protection of the fishery resources on reser- 

 vations. Through the work of the National Resources Committee 

 and the Council of State Governments, both of which agencies have 

 called upon the Bureau for assistance, additional attention is being 

 given to the development of coordinated programs of fishery conser- 

 vation throughout the country demonstrating again the opportunities 

 for effectively integrating all of the activities of government at 

 various levels in this field. 



Specific acknowledgment of cooperation afforded by the various 

 agencies is generally included in each of the succeeding sections of 

 this report. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Owing to the curtailment of funds for printing, the number of 

 publications resulting from investigations of the staff has been 

 reduced. The list of papers published by the Bureau during 1937 

 follows : 



Galtsoff, Paul S., H. F. Prytherch and J. B. Engle. 



Natural history and methods of controlling the common oyster drills 

 (Urosalpiu.v cinerea Say and Eupleura caudata Say). Fishery Circular 

 No. 25, 24 pp., 13 figs. 

 HiGGiNS, Elmer. 



Progress in Biological Inquiries, 1936. Administrative Report No. 29, 

 61 pp. 



HiLDERBRAND, SaMUEL F., and LOUELLA E. CABLE. 



Further notes on the development and life history of some teleosts at 



Beaufort, N. C. Bulletin No. 24, 137 pp., 159 figs. 

 Hopkins, A. E. 



Experimental observations on spawning, larval development, and setting 



in the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida. Bulletin No. 23, 64 pp., 41 figs. 



The following papers were published by members of the staff of 

 the Division of Scientific Inquiry during the year 1937, outside of 

 the Bureau of Fisheries series : 



Davidson, Frederick A. 



Migration and homing of Pacific salmon. Science, vol. 86, No. 2220, 

 pp. 55-56. 

 Ellis, M. M. 



Pollution and aquatic life. Proceedings, Second North American Wildlife 

 Conference, pp. 653-65S. 

 Ellis, M. M., H. L. MoTUiy, M. D. Eixis, and R. O. Jones. 



Selenium poisoning in fish. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental 

 Biology and Medicine, vol. 36. pp. 519^522. 

 Ellis, M. M., H. L. Motley, and M. D. Euis. 



Sore throats from exiX)Sure to selenium. Journal, American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, vol. 109, pp. 1717-1718. 

 Firth, Frank E. 



Recent records extending the range of Caiilolatilus microps north of Florida. 

 Copeia, No. 3 (1937), p. 189. 

 Firth, Frank E., and E. W. Gudger. 



Two reversed partially ambicolorate halibuts: Hippoglossus Mppoglossus. 

 American Museum Novitates, No. 925. 



