138 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 



There have l^eeu a great many changes in the officers attached to the 

 Albatross during the past year, as follows: 



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



U. S. Navy, repoitod. 

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



officer, detached. 

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



Williams, U. S. Navy, detached. 

 November 13, 1894, Lieut. F. S. Carter, U. S. Navy, reported aa 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, rejjorted ; Ensign W. G. Miller, U, S. Navy, reported. 

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

 March 28, 1895, Enpign 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 Eniil Theiss, U. S. Navy, reported. 

 May 17, 189.5, Lieut. F. S. Carter, executive officer, detached; Lieut. B. O. 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, commanding; Lient. Bernard O. Scott, U. S. Navy, executive 

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

 U. S. Navy; Ensign 0. F. Hughes, IT. S. Navy; Ensign E. H. Leigh, 

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

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

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



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

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



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

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

 command lor the uniform courtesy to the ofticers of this vessel and the 

 facilities of the yard which were given us during the ]ieriod of repairs 

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

 indebted to tlie Navy pay-oi'lice 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 nmil. To INIr. J. Stanley-Brown, manager of tlu' North Ameri- 

 can Commercial Company, we are under obligations for subsisting 

 Messrs. True, Prentiss, Townsend, ami JNIiller, who were landed from 

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

 quarters, and medical attention f(u- two of our sick whom we were com- 

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

 Bering Island and return. 



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

 indebted for his unvarying courtesy, both in granting permission for 

 the landing of our i^atients and in tlic sjurit shown in placing all cou- 



