138 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



There have been a great many changes in the officers attached to the 

 Albatross during the past year, as follows: 



August 17, 1894, Ensign C. M. Fahs, U. S. Navy, detached; Ensign N. C. Twining, 

 U. S. Navy, reported. 



October 22, 1894, Lieut. A. F. Fecliteler, U. S. Navy, executive and navigating 

 officer, detached. 



November 1, 1894, Ensign N. C. Twining, U. S. Navy, detached; Ensign Philip 

 Williams, U. S. Navy, detached. 



November 13, 1894, Lieut. F. S. Carter, U. S. Navy, reported as executive officer. 



November 19, 1894, Ensign W. R. Shoemaker, U. S. Navy, detached. 



November 21, 1894, Ensign Edward Moale, jr., reported. 



January 23, 1895, P. A. Engineer Howard Gage, U. S. Navy, detached; P. A. 

 Engineer J. M. Pickrell, U. S. Navy, reported. 



March 1, 1895, Lieut. Houston Eldredge, U. S. Navy, detached; Ensign Harry 

 George, U. S. Navy, reported ; Ensign W. G. Miller, U. S. Navy, reported. 



March 27, 1895, P. A. Engineer J. M. Pickrell, U. S. Navy, detached. 



March 28, 1895, Ensign Harry George, U. S. Navy, detached. 



April 2, 1895, Ensign Benjamin Wright, U. S. Navy, reported. 



April 29, 1895, Ensign Edward Moale, U. S. Navy, detached. 



May 13, 1895, P. A. Engineer Emil Theiss, U. S. Navy, reported. 



May 17, 1895, Lieut. F. S. Carter, executive officer, detached; Lieut. B. 0. Scott, 

 U. S. Navy, reported as executive officer; Ensign R. H. Leigh, U. S. Navy^ 

 reported. 



May 28, 1895, Ensign C. F. Hughes, U. S. Navy, reported. 



List of officers, June 30, 1895. — Lieut. Commander F. J. Drake, U. S. 

 Navy, commandiug; Lieut. Bernard O. Scott, U. S. Navy, executive 

 officer; Ensign W. G. Miller, IJ. S. Navy; Ensign Benjamin Wright, 

 TJ. S. Navy; Ensign C. F. Hughes, U. S. Navy; Ensigii E. H. Leigh, 

 U. S. Navy; P. A. Surg. E. S. Bogert, jr., U. S. Navy; P. A. Paymaster 

 Eugene D. Ryan, U. S. Navy; P. A. Engineer Emil Theiss, U. S. Navy; 

 captain's clerk, Harry Clififord Fassett, U. S. Fish Commission. 



Scientific staff. — C. H. Townsend, resident naturalist; A. B. Alexan- 

 der, fishery expert; N. B. Miller, general assistant. 



The Commission is indebted to Capt. H. L. Howison, U. S. Navy, 

 commandant of the Mare Island navy-yard, and the officers under his 

 command for the uniform courtesy to the officers of this vessel and the 

 facilities of the yard which were given us during the period of repairs 

 and refitting. For taking care of and forwarding our mails we are 

 indebted to the Navy pay-office at San Francisco, which we fully appre- 

 ciate, under the conditions of a cruise in Bering Sea. We are also 

 indebted to the Alaska Commercial Company for material aid and for- 

 warding mail. To Mr. J. Stanley-Brown, manager of the North Ameri- 

 can Commercial Company, we are under obligations for subsisting 

 Messrs. True, Prentiss, Townsend, and Miller, who were landed from 

 this vessel in the interest of the Commission; also for subsistence, 

 quarters, and medical attention for two of our sick whom we were com- 

 pelled to leave upon the island of St. Paul while making the trip to 

 Bering Island and return. 



To Mr. J. B. Crowley, chief Treasury agent, the Commission is also 

 indebted for his unvarying courtesy, both in granting permission for 

 the lauding of our patients and in the spirit shown in placing all con- 



