4 REPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



There were also issued the completed annual report for 1892 and 

 Bulletins for 1892 and 1893, the latter of which was made up of papers 

 presented at the Fisheries Congress of the World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition of 1893. 



During the year there were distributed over 3,400 bound volumes of 

 the annual reports and bulletins, and over 8,800 pamphlet extracts 

 therefrom. 



The following papers were published by the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, at Cambridge, Mass., on the results of the explorations oft" 

 the west coast of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Gal- 

 apagos Islands, carried on in charge of Prof. Alexander Agassiz, by 

 the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross during 1891 : 



The Pelagic Scbizopoda, by Arnold Ortmann. 



Die Opistbobrancbien, by Rudolph Bergh. 



Die Pelagiscben Copepoden, by Wilhelm Giesbrecht. 



The Holothurioidea, by Herbert Ludwig. 



The Stalk-eyed Crustacea, by Walter Faxon. 



There have been added to the library of the Commission 1,205 vol- 

 umes and reports. 



Acknowledgments are due to the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey for the charts of that Bureau furnished the Commission as 

 issued, as well as for meeting special requests for such additional 

 copies of charts as were needed for use in the inquiries conducted by 

 the Commission. 



The health officer of the District of Columbia continued to furnish 

 monthly returns of the receipts of fishery products at the Washington 

 fish-markets. 



The Commission is again indebted to Gen. Albert Ordway, com- 

 manding the District of Columbia militia, for the loan of tents and 

 accessories for use at Bryan Point Station during the shad-hatching 

 season. 



The commercial department, Board of Trade, London, England, fur- 

 nished monthly statements of the fisheries of the coasts of England 

 and Wales, and the Fishery Board of Scotland, Edinburgh, furnished 

 similar information for the coast of Scotland. 



To the courtesy of the managers of many railroad companies, men- 

 tioned in the report of the Division of Fish Culture, the Commission 

 is indebted for the gratuitous transportation of its cars over 65,000 

 miles of road, as well as for permission to carry fish and eggs in the 

 baggage cars of their roads. 



During the year the policy of extending to the various State and 

 Territorial Fish Commissions all possible aid in stocking the waters 

 of their respective States was continued, and over 40,800,000 eggs, 

 6,900,000 fry, and 3,868,000 yearling or adult fish were furnished to the 

 fish commissioners of twenty-one States and Territories. 



Several consignments of eggs were sent to foreign countries — eggs of 

 the quinnat salmon to Mr. A. Geoft'roy St. Hiiaire, president of the 



