XVIII EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



establishments, 1881-1882, $10,000," and on the 15th of November he 

 Tras instructed to disburse the appropriation for the new steamer. 



Bureau of Revenue Marine. — In the latter part of October a consign- 

 ment of turbot and sole arrived from Europe, and in order to facilitate 

 their immediatei transportation to a place of deposit, the revenue steamer 

 Grant, under Captain Fengar, was placed at the disposal of the Com- 

 mission by order of the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Light-House Board. — By instruction of the Board in previous years, 

 many light-house keepers have continued to furnish satisfactory records 

 of ocean temperature. November 25 the Board directed that these 

 temperatures should also be taken at three new places in Chesapeake 

 Bay. May 11 the Board granted the use of a building in the buoy 

 shed at Wood's Holl for the summer. June 15 the Board granted a 

 three mouths' leave of absence to Ephraim Edwards in order that he 

 might act as fog pilot of the steamer Fish Hawk during its stay at 

 Wood's Holl. In March General O. E. Babcock rendered important 

 services to the steamer Fish Hawk in navigating Albemarle Sound. 

 At the request of the Fish Commission, the Light-House Board, in the 

 latter part of August, had the entrance to Saint Jerome's Creek prop- 

 erly marked with buoys. 



Coast Survey. — On many occasions during the year Capt. C. P. Pat- 

 terson, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, responded to requests for 

 charts of Wood's Holl, Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic coast, as well as for 

 copies of the Coast Pilot. 



War Department. — June 16 the Adjutant-General of the Army 

 announced that instructions had been given by General Hancock to 

 the chief quartermaster of the Washington Arsenal to take charge of 

 the carp ponds at that point. 



Engineer Bureau. — In November Col. W. P. Craighill, United States 

 engineer, Baltimore, ordered important improvements at Battery Island, 

 such as providing a landing place for the seine ; the preparation of a 

 breakwater} laying the foundation of the hatching house; the filling of 

 the island; and the sheathing of the basin with boards. The Ordnance 

 Department remitted a charge for rifles and ammunition used in 1878 

 at McCloud Eiver Station, the property having been lost in the flood of 

 this year, and issued an order for duplicating the same. 



Signal Office. — On many occasions during the year, the Chief Signal 

 Officer has furnished thermometers for light-house keepers to use in 

 taking ocean temperatures. April 27 General Hazen furnished a com- 

 plete set of recording and self-registering meteorological instruments for 

 use at Havre de Grace, and on June 27 sent Sergeant Seybooth to 

 Havre de Grace to inaugurate the observations. During operations at 

 Wood's Holl he furnished a series of weather reports, and gave special 

 notice of apprehended hurricanes and storms on the coast, which were 

 of great importance to the steamer Fish Hawk in arranging for trips to 

 the Gulf Stream. He also authorized the stretching of telephone wires 

 along the signal service poles at Wood's Holl. 



