240 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Results of xvork. 



1. Eeports of the Commission. 



(United States* Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III.) 



XXXIII. Sectiox on the organs of reproduction and the 



fecundation of fishes and especially of Eels. 

 By Dr. Syvski. pp. 719-734. 



XXXIV. The food and mode of living of the Salmon, the 



Trout, and the Shad. By D. Barfurtli. pp. 7:^5-758. 



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



OF the Commissioner for 1875-1876. A.— Inquiry into the decrease 



OF THE FOOD-riSIIES. B. — TlIE PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES IN THE 



WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Wasliingtoii : Govcmnieut Printing- 

 office. 1878. 8vo., pp. ix, 50, 1029, plates vi (Hist, of whale fishery). 

 I. Report of the Commissioner. 

 A. — General considerations. 



1. Introductory remarks, p. 1. 



B. — Inquiry into the decrease of food-fishes. 



2. Investigations and operations of 1875. p. 4. 



3. Investigations and operations of 1876. p. 7. 

 C. — The propagation of food-fishes. 



4. General considerations, p. 8. 



5. Actual work of propagation of food-fishes in 1875 



and 1876. p. 20. 

 The shad. p. 20, 

 The California salmon, p. 21. 

 The Atlantic salmon, p. 25. 

 The land-locked, salmon, p. 25. 

 The white-fish. j). 26. 

 The carj). p. 27. 

 D. — Tables. 



Table 7, — Hatching and distribution of fish by the 

 United States Fish Commission from the 



beginning of its work in 1872 TO THE SUM- 

 MER OF 1876. p. 28. 

 II. — Appendix to report of Commissioner. 

 Appendix A. — The sea fisheries. 



I. History of the Ajierican whale fishery from 

 its earliest inception to the year 1876. 

 By Alexander Starbuck. 

 Appendix B. — The inland fisheries. 



II. Fisheries op Chicago and vicinity. By E. W. 

 Nelson, p. 783. 



III. The salmon fisheries of the Columbia River. 



By Livingston Stone, p. 801. 



IV. Notes on some fisheries of the Delaware 



River. By Dr. C. C. Abbott, p. 825. 

 V. Method of purifying the residuum of gas- 

 works before allowing it to pass off into 

 the water. By J. R. Shotwell. p. 847. 

 VI. Tables of temper atuimcs of air and water at 

 sundry stations of the United States Signal 

 Office, froji March, 1874, to February, 1875, 

 AND FROM March, 1876, to February, 1877, 

 inclusive, p. 851. 



