REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LI 
9,—COURTESIES AND ASSISTANCE RENDERED BY THE FISH COMMIS- 
° SION. 
England.—Shipments to England were made to the National Fish 
Culture Association, South Kensington, London. On January 15 and 
29, 1886, two lots of whitefish eggs, each of 1,000,000, were forwarded 
by the Cunard steamer Aurania. On January 15, 1887, 1,500,000 eggs 
of the same species, followed on February 19 by 1,000,000, were shipped 
through Mr. E. G. Blackford, of New York. Few of these, however, 
arrived in good condition. 
50,000 lake-trout eggs were sent by the Awrania on January 15, 1886, 
and arrived in excellent order. 
10,000 brook-trout eggs were carried by the Cunarder Servia, January 
29, 1886, and 10,000 were forwarded through Mr. Blackford on January 
15, 1887. , 
10,000 eggs of the landlocked salmon were taken March 16, 1886, by 
the White Star Line steamer Germanic. On March 5, 1887, Mr. HE. G. 
Blackford assisted in sending 25,000 eggs of the same species. Both of 
these shipments were successful. 
10,000 eggs of the rainbow trout were sent from Wytheville during 
the fiscal year 1886~87. 
France.—During the fiscal year 1886-87, 5,000 eggs of the rainbow 
trout were sent to France from the Wytheville Station. On April 6, 
1887, 25,000 eggs of this trout from the Northville Station were sent to 
Mr. E. G. Blackford for shipment to France. 
25,000 eggs of the landlocked salmon, from Grand Lake Stream 
Station, were shipped on April 1, 1887, to Léon d’Halloy, vice-president 
of the Lower Seine Fish Commission. 
Germany.—In April, 1886, an unsuccessful attempt was.made to 
transport shad to the Danube River. 
On March 20, 1886, 20,000 landlocked salmon eggs were sent to von 
dem Borne for the Fischerei Verein. 30,000 eggs of this species were 
forwarded on March 5, 1887, through Mr. E. G. Blackford, to von Behr 
for the same association, and 10,000 to Max von dem Borne for his 
establishment at Berneuchen. 
In January, 1886, two shipments of whitefish eggs, each containing 
1,000,000, were made from Northville to the Deutsche Fischerei Verein, 
Germany. These were repacked at Cold Spring Harbor. <A third con- 
signment of 1,000,000 from the same station was reshipped by Mr. 
Blackford March 10 in the original packages, modified only by replac- 
ing some of the packing with ice. On January 22, 1887, again 1,000,000 
whitefish eggs were sent from Northville to Mr. Blackford, to be for- 
warded to Germany. 
At Cold Spring Harbor 50,000 lake-trout eggs, which had come from 
Northville, were reshipped on January 18, 1886, per steamer Fulda, to 
the Fischerei Verein. 

