238 ANIMAL EESOUKCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Results of i^ork. 



1. Reports of tlie Commission. 



(UxiTED States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part II.) 



XXXI. Temperature in the Gulf of Mexico, p'rom records 

 OF the United States Coast Survey, pp. 745-748. 

 XXXII. Correspondence with companies relative to facil- 

 ities IN 'transportation, etc. pp. 749-756. 



XXXIII. Reports of special conferences with American 



FiSH-CULTURISTS' ASSOCIATION AND STATE COMMIS- 

 SIONERS OF Fisheries, p. 757. 



A. Meeting at Boston, June 13, 1872. pp. 757-762. 



B. Meeting at New York, October 17, 1 872. pp. 763-778. 



XXXIV. Bibliography of Reports of Fishery Comjussions. 



By Theodore Gill. pp. 764-773. 



A. Names of Coiuniissioners. p. 774. 



B. Bibliography of i-eports. pp. 775-784. 

 List of illustrations, pp. 785-790. 



General index, p. 791. 

 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. — Report 

 of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5. A. — Inquiry into the 

 decrease of the food-fishes. B. — The propagation of food-fishes 

 IN THE waters OF THE UNITED STATES. By SpenccT F. Baird, Commis- 

 sioner. Washington : Government" Printing-Office. 1876. 



Appendix A. — Sea-fisheries and the fishes and invertebrates 



used as FOOD. 



. I. Historical observations on the condition of the 

 fisheries among the ancient Greeks and Romans 

 and their mode of salting and packing fish. by 

 J. K. Smidlo. pp. 1, 2. 

 II. Statistics of the most important fisheries of the 

 North Atlantic. By Carl Dambeck. pi>. 3-24. 



III. On the fisheries of Norway, pp. 24-30. 



IV. Statistical data regarding the Swedish fisheries. 



pp. 31-34. 

 V. Account of the fisheries and Seal-hunting in the 

 White Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Caspian 

 Sea. By Alexander Schultz. pp. 35, 96. 

 VI. The Norwegian Herring-fisheries. By A. J. Breck 



and A. Fadderdin. pp. 97-122. 



VII. Preliminary Report for 1873-74 on the Herring 



AND THE Herring-fisheries on the west coast op 



Sweden. By Axel Vilhclm Springinan. pp. 123-168. 



VIII. The Halibut fisheries of the United States. By 



Lieut. P. De Broca. pp. 169-172. 



IX. The fishing villages Snikkerstun and Skolterup, 



AND THE collection OF FISHING IMPLEMENTS EX- 

 HIBITED BY THEM AT ElSINORE, DENMARK, DURING 

 THE SUMMER OF 1H72. pp. 173-182. 



X. On the Herrlng and its preparation as an article 

 OF TRADE, By Hyalniar Widigncr. pp. 183-192. 



XI. New CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HERRING QUESTION — TlTB 

 DISPUTE BETWEEN AXEL BCECK AND OSSIAN SAR^ 

 REGARDING THE NORWEGIAN SUMMER HkRRING- - 

 SaRS' RECENT OBSERVATIONS AND HIS NEW THEORY 

 ON THE MIGRATION OF THE HERRING, pp. 193-194. 



