REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 3 



to the United States Attoruey-Geiieral for examinatiou aud certification 

 as to its suificiency to vest a valid title in the United States. 



The hatchery at St. Johnsbury, Vt., being sufficiently complete to 

 begin work of propagation, was turned over to the superintendent of 

 the station. 



Under the sujiervision of the mechanical engineer, the pumps, boilers 

 and other machinery located at the various stations of the Fish Com- 

 mission and on board the steam launches attached to those stations 

 have been kept in condition for use, and such repairs and alterations 

 made as would tend to greater economy aud efficiency, or provide for 

 an expansion of the work at the various stations. In addition to the 

 other duties of the office, plans, specifications, and estimates for equij)- 

 ping a hatchery located at Oape Vincent, N. Y., were prepared. 



The following papers were publivshed during the year: 



Fish nets: some accounts of their constrnctiou and 1he application of the various 



forms in American fisheries, by C. H. Augur. Bulletin 1893, pp. 381 to 388. 

 Statistics of the lisheries of the United States, by Hugh M. Smith. Bulletin 1893, 



pp. 389 to 417. 

 The fisheries of Japan, by the Bureau of Acriculturo of Japan. Compiled by Hugh 



M. Smith. Bulletin 1893, pp. 418 to 438. 

 The exhibit of pearls at the World's Columbian Exposition, by George F. Kunz. 



Bulletin 1893, pp. 439 to 457. 

 Results of exi^lorations in ■western Canada and Northwestern United States, by Carl 



H. Eigeumann. Bulletin 1894, pp. 101 to 132. 

 Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1892, Marshall McDonald, 



Commissioner; pp. vii to cciv. 

 Report upon the investigations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alhaf^'oss for 



year ending June 30, 1892, by Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. Report 1891-92, pp. 1 to 64. 

 The myxoaporidia or psorosperms of fishes, and the epidemics produced by them, by 



R. R. Gurley. Report 1891-92, pp. 6.5 to 304. 

 A bibliography of the publications in the English language relative to oysters and 



the oyster industries, by C. H. Stevenson. Report 1891-92, pp. 305 to 359. 

 The lisheries of the Great Lakes, by Hugh M. Smith. Report 1891-92, pp. 361 



to 462. 

 Notes on the fishes of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska, by Seth E. Meek. Bulle- 

 tin 1894, pp. 133 to 138. 

 liist of the fislies inhabiting Clear Lake, California, bv D. S. Jordan and C. H. 



Gilbert. Bulletin 1894, pp. 139, 140. 

 Notes on the fresh- water species of San Luis Obispo County, California, by David 



Starr Jordan. Bulletin 1894, pp. 133 to 142. 

 On the appliances for collecting pelagic organisms, with special reference to those 



employed by the U. S. Fish Commission, bv Z. L. Tanner. Bulletin 1894, pp. 



143 to'lSl. 

 The salmon tislieries of the Columbia River basin, by Marshall McDonald, together 



with a report upon physical and natural-history investigations in the region, by 



C. H. Gilbert and B. W. Evermanu. Bulletin 1894, pp. 153 to 207. Also issued 



as Senate Miscellaneous Document 200, 53rd Congress, second session. 

 Notes on the oyster industry of Now Jersev, by Ansley Hall. Report 1892, jip. 463 



to 528. 

 Notes on fishes collected in Florida in 1892, by James A. Henshall. Bulletin 1894, 



pp. 209 to 221. 

 Notes on a reconnoissance of the fisheries of the Pacific Coast of the United States, 



by Hugh M. Smith. Bulletin 1894, pp. 223 to 288. 

 Feeding and rearing fishes, particularly trout, under domestication, by W. F. Page. 



Bulletin 1894, pp. 289 to 311. 

 Report upon investigations in the Maumee River Basin during the summer of 1893, 



by Philip H. Kirsch. Bulletin 1894, pp. 315 to 338. 

 A statistical re])ort upon the fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States, by Hugh M. 



Smith. Bulletin 1891, pp. ,339 to 466. 

 A list of tlie species of fishes known from the vicinity of Neosho, Mo., by B. W. 



Evermaim aud W. C. Kendall. Bulletin 1894, pp. 467 to 472. 

 The fishes of the Colorado Basin, bv B. W. Evermanu and Cloud. Rutter. Bulletin 



1894, pp. 473 to 490. 



