CONTENTS. XCVll 



Page. 

 APPENDIX C— Contluued, 



XIX. Eeport on the propagation of shad— Continued. 



8. The male fish 431 



9. The impregnation of shad-eggs 432 



10. The Susquehanna, Delaware, and Hudson Rivers 433 



11. Journal of a trip with shad and eels to Calumet River, Illinois. 434 



12. Shipment of shad and eels to the Fox River, Wisconsin 437 



13. Shipment of shad to Ashtabula River, Ohio 437 



14. Shipment of shad to the Wabash River , Indiana 438 



15. Shipment of shad to the waters of Lake Champiaiu, Vermont. 439 



16. Shipment of shad to the Housatonic River, Connecticut 439 



17. Shipment of shad to the Penobscot River, Maine 440 



18. Establishment of station on the Androscoggin River,-Maine. .. 440 



19. Second shipment of shad to the waters of Lake Champlain, Vt. 441 



20. Shipment of shad to the Detroit and Grand Rivers, Michigan . . 441 



Table of distribution of shad and eels 442 



21. Mode of estimating numbers of eggs and fish 442 



22. The care of young shad during transportation 443 



a. The apparatus 443 



&. The care of the fish 444 



c. Water adapted to young fish 445 



d. Temperature of the water in the cans 447 



e. Transferring the shad from the cans to the river 447 



/. Facilities required from the railroads 448 



23. Possibility of stocking the great lakes with shad 449 



24. Popularity of the work of the commission 450 



XX. Notes on the natural history op the shad and alewife 452 



A. Notes on the shad as observed at Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, and 



vicinity. By H. C. Yarrow, M.D 452 



B. Notes on the shad as observed in the Delaware River. By J. H. Slack, M. D. 457 



1. The importance of the shad as a food-fish 457 



2. The decrease in the Delaware 457 



3. The causes of decrease 457 



a. Erection of dams 458 



&. Destruction of fry 4.58 



c. Destruction of seed-fishes 459 



cl. Destruction of impregnated ova 459 



4. Habits of shad in the spawning-season 459 



C. The shad and gaspereau or alewife of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



By Charles Lanman 461 



1. The shad 461 



2. The gaspereau or alewife 462 



APPENDIX D.— FISH-CULTURE, (the history, theory, and practice of fish- 

 culture) 463 



XXI. The history of fish-culture 465 



A. The history of fish-culture in Europe, from its earlier record to 1854. By 



Jules Haime 465 



B. Eeport on the progress of pisciculture in Russia. By Theodore Soudakfevicz 493 



1. The decrease of food-fishes ^ 493 



2. Pisciculture 495 



3. Selection of male and female fish 497 



4. The fecundation of spawn 498 



5. The incubation of sjjaw^n 499 



S. Mis. 74 VII 



