XX REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



pleted in the spring, some special arrangements with reference to its 

 rate of transportation were called for. On May 20 Mr. Isaac Hinckley, 

 president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road, offered 

 the rate of 20 cents a mile for car and five messengers. This was 

 shortly afterwards acceded to by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Balti- 

 timore and Ohio, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Boston and 

 Albany, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Flint and Pere Mar- 

 quette, the Illinois Central, the Louisville and Nashville, the New York, 

 New Haven and Hartford, the Old Colony, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 

 and Chicago, the Terre Haute and Indianapolis, and the Vandalia line. 

 The Union and Central Pacific railroads offered the rate of $370 for mov- 

 ing the car from Council Bluifs to Sah Francisco. 



Steamships. — The North German Lloyd steamer Donau, sailing in 

 January, took out 20,000 land-locked salmon for Germany. December 

 20 the steamer for Panama took a can of carp for Arthur MoreU at San 

 Jos6. In December the steamship Oder took 350,000 whitefish eggs for 

 Germany. 



Western Union Telegraph Company. — January 28 the operators 

 of the Western Union were instructed to receive and transmit at Gov- 

 ernment rates, without prepayment, the messages on ofiicial business 

 from the messengers of the Fish Commission. 



Foreign countries. — Of courtesies extended to the Commission 

 by individuals or establishments in foreign countries, the following may 

 be enumerated : 



GERMANY — {Saiblincj.) — On the 23d of January an invoice of 60,000 

 saibling eggs {Sahno salvclinus) arrived from Burgomaster Schuster, of 

 Freiburg, Germany, with a toss of but 5,000 eggs. The particulars of 

 their treatment on arrival will be found on page XL v. 



FRANCE — {Gourami.) — In August an effort was made by Monsieur 

 L. Carbonnier to send a pair of live gourami to the United States, con- 

 signed to Mr. E. G. Blackford. Unfortunately, one died on the passage 

 and the other a short time after reaching this country. Further refer- 

 ence to this experiment will be found on page lii. 



ENGLAND — {Turhot and sole.) — In October Mr. C. L. Jackson, of Bol- 

 ton, England, started 70 live soles and 35 turbot for the United States, 

 in charge of A. Wilson Armistead. Of these, 67 soles and 29 turbot 

 died on the passage, and there arrived, October 26, 3 soles and 6 turbot. 

 These were taken charge of by Mr. Blackford, Mr. Mather, and Mr. Phil- 

 lips, who deposited them off Long Island, nearly opposite the Hotel 

 Brighton, on the day of their arrival. Further particulars of this will 

 be found on page Liii. 



4. — COURTESIES EXTENDED BY THE COMMISSION TO FOREIGN COUN- 

 TRIES. 



During the present year, as in jirevious ones, considerable numbers 

 of salmon, whitefish, and trout eggs have been sent abroad in exchange 



