L REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
duced rate, in granting permission to carry fish and eggs in baggage © 
cars, and to make repairs at their shops. 
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company passed a car free from Saint 
Paul to the Pacific coast and back. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa - 
Fé transported a car without charge with fish for the Southern Pacific 
region. During the whitefish distribution the Grand Rapids and In- 
diana Railroad lent the Commission a baggage car, which they trans- 
ported free. 
C.—By STEAM-SHIP COMPANIES. 
The foreign steam-ship companies, without exception, have continued 
to transport free of charge the fish and eggs which are exchanged be- 
tween the United States and foreign countries. 
Messrs. Glidden and Curtis, of Boston, furnished transportation for 
a Fish Commission naturalist, Mr. Charles H. Townsend, from New 
York to Swan Island, on board the schooner Mosquito. 
D.—COURTESIES FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Australia—Mr. I. Abbott, of the botanical gardens, Hobart, Tas- 
mania, in September sent some seeds of hardy Eucalyptus, and offered 
to send those of Nymphwa gigantea, for the plant collections at the carp i 
ponds. 
England.—During the year, 61 soles were brought over alive from 
Liverpool in the White Star steamer Britannic and placed in large 
tanks at Wood’s Holl, to be kept for breeding ptirposes. 
Germany.—On January 28, were received from the German Fishery 
Association 50,000 eggs of a small whitefish (Coregonus albula); these 
were forwarded to Bucksport, for hatching and planting in Maine 
waters. On February 4, 50,000 additional eggs were received, and the 
good ones sent to Northville for lakes in Michigan and adjacent States. 
During March, 1886, 104,000 eggs of the brown trout (Salmo fario) 
were received. The good ones, 35,000 in number, were sent to North- 
ville, Wytheville, and Cold Spring Harbor. On April 16, 50,000 eggs 
were obtained from Max von dem Borne, of Berneuchen; these were 
forwarded to Northville, Mich.; Madison, Wis.; and Cold Sprint Har- 
bor,N..X. 4 
During March, 1887, 58,000 eggs of the brown trout were received 
from Max von eed ewe and 50,000 from the German Fishery ABs0g 
ciation. 
On February 9, 1887, 20,000 eggs of the saibling (Salvelinus alpinus) 
were received from heer Gacnety On March 9 another consignment of 
40,000 eggs arrived, one-half of them from Max von dem Borne, the 
other from the German Fishery Association. 
Scotland.—On January 14, 1887, the Cold Spring Harbor Station re- 
ceived 48,000 eggs of the Loch Leven trout (Salmo levenensis), from Sir 
J. R. Gibson Maitland, proprietor of the Howietoun Fishery at Stirling. 





