
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LV 
year, and the bound volumes were ready for distribution by the middle 
of December. 
Quarto Reports.—Considerable progress was made with the quarto re- 
ports relating to the fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, 
which were ordered printed by an act of Congress passed in 1882. 
These reports have been prepared by Prof. G. Brown Goode and a staff 
of associates, under the joint co-operation of the Commissioner of Fish- 
eries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census. The ‘“ Geographical 
Review of the Fisheries,” which, after being put in type, was trans- 
ferred to the Department of the Interior, in 1885, for publication as a 
volume of the Census Report, was returned to the Commission during 
_ the current year, and will form Section 11 of the Quarto series. Only 
the press-work and binding remain to be done. The account of the 
fishing grounds of North America and of the ocean temperatures of the 
Atlantic coast, now constituting Section 111, and the report upon the 
fishermen, forming Section Iv, are also in type. Section v, in which 
the History and Methods of the Fisheries are discussed, was nearly 
ready for the Printer at the close of the year. | 
Bulletin.—The printing of the Bulletin for the current year (Volume 
VI) was begun early in February. Signatures were mailed to corre- 
spondents March 30, July 23, October 22, and December 20. 
Pamphlets.—The fannie publications, mostly extracted from the 
Annual Reports for 1883, 1884, and 1885, have been issued during the 
year for separate distribution : 
96. TANNER, Z. L. Report on the work of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Alba- 
tross for the year ending December 31, 1883. (From Report 1883, pp. 117-236.) 
97. STONE, LivinasTon. Explorations on the Columbia River from the head of 
Clarke’s Fork to the Pacific Ocean, made in the summer of 1883, with reference 
to the selection of a suitable place for establishing a salmon-breeding station. 
(From Report 1883, pp. 237-258.) 
98. ATWATER, W. O. Contributions to the knowledge of the chemical composition 
and nutritive values of American food-fishes and invertebrates. (From Re- 
port 1883, pp. 433-499.) 
99. VERRILL, A. E. Results of the explorations made by the steamer Albatross off the 
northern coast of the United States in 1883. (From Report 1883, pp. 503-699.) 
100. BusH, Karuarine, J. List of deep-water mollusca dredged by the U.S. Fish | 
Commission steamer Fish Hawk in 1880, 1881, and 1882, with their range in 
depth. (From Report 1883, pp. 701-727.) 
101. E1rseN, GusTAv. Oligochtoiogical researches. (From Report 1883, pp. 479- 
964.) 
102. Seat, WILLIAM P. The Aqua-vivarium as an aid to biological research. (From 
Report 1883, pp. 965-969. ) 
103. Beneckr, B. Utilizing water by fish-culture. (From Report 1883, pp. 1101- 
1142.) 
104. RyprerR, Joun A. An exposition of the priciples of a rational system of oyster 
culture, together with an account of a new and practical method of obtaining 
oyster spat on a scale of commercial importance. (From Report 1885, pp. 
381-423. ) 
105. Smiru, SipNEY I. Report on the Decapod Crustacea of the Albatross dredgings 
off the east coast of the United States during the summer and autumn of 1884, 
(From Report 1885, pp. 605-705.) 
