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Fishery Publications of the United States. 
By 
J. VT. Cunningham, M.A.. 
Naturalist to the Association. 
Iy recent years the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 
has outgrown its older brother, the Report of the Commissioner, and in 
some respects supplanted it. The last volume of the Report, part 
xvi, bears the date of publication 1893, but it was only received by 
us in the present month of June, 1894, and it refers to operations 
carried out in the two years 1889—91,—in other words, from three to 
five years ago. ‘The volume consists of three general reports and 
six appendices. ‘Ihe former are the Report of the Commissioner, 
that of Mr, Richard Rathbun on the Inquiry respecting Food-fishes 
and the Fishing-grounds, and that of Mr. Hugh M. Smith on the 
Inquiry regarding the Methods and Statistics of the Fisheries. The 
Appendices comprise three special reports, a Review of Sparoid Fishes, 
by David Starr Jordan and Bert Fesler, an article on Fish Entozoa, 
and a translation of Haeckel’s well-known pamphlet, Plankton- 
Studien. 
The first thing of interest which we note in the Report of the 
Commissioner is a statement of the amount of the appropriation of 
public revenue tothe work of the Commission. Inthe year 1889—90 
the total amount was $278,900, in the following year $298,900, in 
English money about £55,780 and £59,780 respectively. In the 
second of the two years mentioned the division of this money among 
the various departments of the work was as follows : 
Commissioner’s “‘ Compensation ” : . £1,000 
~ «. Propagation of food-fishes . 30,000 
-.... Distribution of food-fishes . 10,000 
Maintenance of vessels. . 10,780 
Inquiry respecting food-fishes 4000 
Statistical inquiry ; 4000 
