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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  is 
  increasing 
  yearly, 
  and 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  necessary 
  to 
  have 
  reprinted 
  certain 
  

   of 
  the 
  more 
  popular 
  and 
  useful 
  pamphlets. 
  

  

  The 
  Museum 
  of 
  Comparative 
  Zoology, 
  Cambridge, 
  Mass., 
  has 
  pub- 
  

   lished, 
  under 
  the 
  general 
  title, 
  "Reports 
  on 
  the 
  scientific 
  results 
  of 
  the 
  

   expedition 
  to 
  the 
  tropical 
  Pacific, 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  Alexander 
  Agassiz, 
  b}'^ 
  

   the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  steamer 
  Alhatross, 
  from 
  August, 
  1899, 
  to 
  

   March, 
  1900, 
  Commander 
  Jefferson 
  F. 
  Moser, 
  commanding:" 
  

  

  The 
  coral 
  reefs 
  of 
  the 
  tropical 
  Pacific. 
  By 
  Alexander 
  Agassiz. 
  (Vol. 
  XXVIII. 
  

  

  February, 
  1903.) 
  

   Sharks' 
  teeth 
  and 
  cetacean 
  bones 
  from 
  the 
  red 
  clay 
  of 
  the 
  tropical 
  Pacific. 
  By 
  

  

  C. 
  R. 
  Eastman. 
  (Vol. 
  XXVI, 
  No. 
  4. 
  June, 
  1903.) 
  

  

  THE 
  AMERICAN 
  FISHERIES 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  This 
  society 
  includes 
  in 
  its 
  membership 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  persons 
  engaged 
  

   in 
  practical 
  fish 
  culture 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and, 
  in 
  addition, 
  many 
  

   of 
  those 
  interested 
  in 
  biological, 
  economic, 
  and 
  administrative 
  work 
  in 
  

   connection 
  with 
  the 
  fisheries. 
  The 
  yearly 
  meetings, 
  held 
  in 
  different 
  

   parts 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  are 
  well 
  attended 
  and 
  greatly 
  promote 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   ests 
  of 
  fish 
  culture 
  and 
  the 
  fisheries. 
  The 
  annual 
  meeting 
  for 
  1902-3 
  

   was 
  held 
  at 
  Put-in 
  Bay, 
  Ohio, 
  August 
  5 
  to 
  7, 
  1902, 
  Gen. 
  E. 
  E, 
  Brj-ant, 
  

   of 
  the 
  Wisconsin 
  Fish 
  Commission, 
  presiding. 
  Among 
  the 
  papers 
  

   presented 
  and 
  discussed 
  were 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  The 
  habits 
  and 
  culture 
  of 
  the 
  black 
  bass. 
  By 
  Dwight 
  Lydell, 
  of 
  the 
  Michigan 
  Fish 
  

  

  Commission. 
  

   Discouragements 
  in 
  bass 
  culture. 
  By 
  H. 
  D. 
  Dean, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Com- 
  

   mission. 
  

   Some 
  remarks 
  on 
  the 
  rainbow 
  trout, 
  the 
  time 
  for 
  planting, 
  etc. 
  By 
  George 
  A. 
  

  

  Seagle, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

   Fish 
  culture 
  on 
  the 
  farm. 
  By 
  J. 
  J. 
  Stranahan, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

   Artificial 
  feeding 
  of 
  trout; 
  its 
  effect 
  on 
  growth 
  and 
  egg 
  production. 
  By 
  W. 
  T. 
  

  

  Thompson, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

   The 
  brook-trout 
  disease 
  and 
  cement 
  ponds. 
  By 
  M. 
  C. 
  Marsh, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

  

  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

   A 
  successful 
  year 
  in 
  the 
  artificial 
  propagation 
  of 
  the 
  white-fish. 
  By 
  Frank 
  N. 
  Clark, 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

   The 
  role 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  aquatic 
  plants 
  in 
  the 
  biology 
  of 
  fresh 
  water. 
  By 
  Raymond 
  

  

  H. 
  Pond, 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Michigan. 
  

   Food 
  and 
  game 
  fishes 
  of 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  region. 
  By 
  James 
  A. 
  Henshall, 
  of 
  

  

  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  ensuing 
  term 
  George 
  M. 
  Bowers, 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Com- 
  

   missioner, 
  was 
  elected 
  president, 
  and 
  the 
  place 
  selected 
  for 
  the 
  next 
  

   meeting 
  was 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  station 
  at 
  Woods 
  

   Hole, 
  Mass. 
  

  

  m'dONALD 
  PATENTS. 
  

  

  By~ 
  an 
  act 
  of 
  Congress 
  approved 
  February 
  14, 
  1902, 
  the 
  Secretary 
  

   of 
  the 
  Treasury 
  was 
  directed 
  to 
  purchase 
  from 
  the 
  owners 
  of 
  the 
  

   McDonald 
  hatching 
  jar 
  all 
  their 
  rights 
  in 
  and 
  the 
  patents 
  on 
  this 
  

   apparatus 
  for 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  act 
  provided 
  for 
  the 
  

   purchase 
  from 
  the 
  estate 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Commissioner 
  McDonald, 
  for 
  the 
  

   use 
  of 
  the 
  government, 
  the 
  rights 
  and 
  patents 
  pertaining 
  to 
  all 
  fish- 
  

   cultural 
  apparatus 
  and 
  appliances 
  invented 
  by 
  him. 
  

  

  