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land enables the Bureau to protect the water supply and construct 
additional ponds. 
At the Clackamas, Oreg., station, a one-story six-room frame build- 
ing, with attic and cellar, has been completed as a superintendent’s 
residence. 
The special appropriation of $4,500 for reconstruction of the hatch- 
ery building and barn at the Baker Lake, Wash., station, which were 
destroyed by fire, has been expended in accordance with the terms of 
the appropriation. Substantial new buildings constructed by the 
station force were completed early in the summer of 1915 and were 
ready for the salmon operations that year. 
It is a pleasure to record the donation of a fish hatchery by a private 
individual. Mary A. Scully, widow of John S. Scully, has transferred 
to the Government the property known as the Berkshire Trout Hatch- 
ery, in the Berkshire Hills, Mass., comprising about 135 acres of land, 
with buildings, ponds, etc. The alate was run for a number of 
years by Mr. Scully, and Mrs. Scully’s object in making this notewor- 
thy bequest was to insure the perpetual maintenance of the property 
for the purpose to which her husband had dedicated it. The accept- 
ance of the gift was authorized by joint resolution of Congress ap- 
proved July 28, and the property has now passed into the custody of 
the Bureau of Fisheries. ‘The necessary permanent personnel has been 
provided for in the 1918 estimates submitted to Congress. 
MOVEMENTS, REPAIR, AND CONSTRUCTION OF VESSELS. 
The special fishery and other work with which certain vessels have 
been connected has been noted elsewhere. There may be given under 
this head some data that pertain more particularly to the mere move- 
ments and the repairs of some of the seagoing craft. 
On July 1, 1915, the Albatross was being prepared to take up again 
the halibut investigations off the coasts of Washington and Oregon, 
and on July 6 the vessel sailed from Sausalito, Cal., arriving off the 
mouth of the Columbia River July 9. The work was continued until 
‘September 9, and the ship then proceeded to San Francisco, arrivin 
two days later. Until October 11 she was anchored off Sausalito an 
was then taken to docks at Alameda. From that time until March 7, 
1916, the crew was kept busy overhauling the ship and machinery, 
repainting, etc. The vessel was docked on March 7. This long period 
of inactivity was owing to lack of funds sufficient for cruising expenses. 
The deficiency act approved February 28, 1916, appropriated $7,500 
for maintenance of vessels for the Bureau, and with this sum an inves- 
tigation of the tuna fisheries off the coasts of southern and lower Cali- 
fornia was undertaken, an investigation which had been in contem- 
plation for a number of years. The cruise was begun April 4, and the 
work was in progress at the close of the fiscal year. During the year 
the Albatross cruised some six months, covering 9,850 miles and con- 
suming 950 tons of coal. On July 1, 1915, Lieut. L. B. Porterfield, 
U.S. Navy, was detached from the command of the vessel and was 
ape cs on the same day by Lieut. Commander J. J. Hannigan, 
.S. Navy. 
During the early part of the summer of 1915 the steamer Fish Hawk 
was utilized in connection with the Beaufort laboratory and on August 
10 was assigned to special investigations in Long Island Sound, with 
which she was occupied until October 7. On October 21 the biolog- 
