﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  XVII 
  

  

  Report 
  upon 
  the 
  investigations 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  steamer 
  Albatross 
  for 
  

   the 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  30, 
  1895 
  (abstract), 
  by 
  F. 
  J. 
  Drake. 
  Report 
  for 
  1895, 
  xxi, 
  

   pp. 
  125-168. 
  1896. 
  

  

  Notes 
  on 
  Biscayne 
  Bay, 
  Florida, 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  its 
  adaptability 
  as 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  a 
  

   marine 
  hatching 
  and 
  exi)eriment 
  station, 
  by 
  HughM. 
  Smith. 
  Report 
  for 
  1895, 
  

  

  XXI, 
  pp. 
  169-191. 
  1896. 
  

  

  The 
  transplanting 
  of 
  eastern 
  oysters 
  to 
  Willapa 
  Bay, 
  Washington, 
  with 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  native 
  oyster 
  industry, 
  by 
  C. 
  H. 
  Towusend. 
  Report 
  for 
  1895, 
  xxi, 
  pp. 
  193-202, 
  

  

  plate 
  1. 
  1896. 
  

   Description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  shad 
  {Alosa 
  aJahamw) 
  from 
  Alabama, 
  by 
  Barton 
  W. 
  

  

  Evermann. 
  Report 
  for 
  1895, 
  xxi, 
  pp. 
  203-205. 
  1896. 
  

   A 
  check-list 
  of 
  the 
  fishes 
  and 
  lish-like 
  vertebrates 
  of 
  North 
  and 
  Middle 
  America, 
  by 
  

  

  David 
  Starr 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Barton 
  Warren 
  Evermann. 
  Report 
  for 
  1895, 
  xxi, 
  pp. 
  

  

  207-584. 
  1896. 
  

   Report 
  of 
  the 
  Commissioner 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  30, 
  1896, 
  including 
  the 
  

  

  reports 
  of 
  divisions 
  of 
  tish-culture, 
  scientific 
  inquirv, 
  and 
  fisheries, 
  by 
  John 
  J. 
  

  

  Brice. 
  Report 
  for 
  1896, 
  xxii, 
  pp. 
  1-145, 
  plates 
  1-10. 
  ' 
  1897. 
  

   Report 
  of 
  the 
  representative 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  at 
  the 
  Cotton 
  States 
  and 
  

  

  International 
  Exposition 
  at 
  Atlanta, 
  Ga., 
  in 
  1895, 
  by 
  W. 
  deC. 
  Ravenel. 
  Report 
  

  

  for 
  1896, 
  XXII, 
  pp. 
  147-167, 
  plates 
  11-21. 
  1897. 
  

   Notes 
  on 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  recorded 
  range 
  of 
  certain 
  fishes 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

  

  Coast, 
  by 
  Hugh 
  M. 
  Smith 
  and 
  William 
  C. 
  Kendall. 
  Report 
  for 
  1896, 
  xxii, 
  {>p. 
  

  

  169-176. 
  1897. 
  

   Notes 
  on 
  the 
  food 
  of 
  four 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  cod 
  family, 
  by 
  William 
  C. 
  Kendall. 
  Report 
  

  

  for 
  1896, 
  XXII, 
  pp. 
  177-186. 
  1897. 
  

   The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Indian 
  River, 
  Florida, 
  by 
  John 
  J. 
  Brice 
  et 
  al. 
  Report 
  for 
  1896, 
  

  

  XXII, 
  pp. 
  223-262, 
  plates 
  22-60. 
  1897. 
  

  

  Report 
  on 
  the 
  fish 
  aud 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  coastal 
  waters 
  of 
  Florida, 
  by 
  John 
  J. 
  Brice. 
  

  

  Report 
  for 
  1896, 
  xxii, 
  pp. 
  263-342. 
  1897. 
  

   Report 
  of 
  a 
  survey 
  of 
  the 
  oyster 
  regions 
  of 
  St. 
  Vincent 
  Sound, 
  Apalachicola 
  Bay, 
  and 
  

  

  St. 
  George 
  Sound, 
  Florida, 
  by 
  Franklin 
  Swift. 
  Report 
  for 
  1896, 
  xxii, 
  pp. 
  

  

  187-221. 
  1897. 
  

  

  There 
  have 
  been 
  distributed 
  4,340 
  bound 
  aud 
  11,473 
  pamphlet 
  copies 
  

   of 
  the 
  publications 
  of 
  this 
  Commission. 
  

  

  The 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum 
  has 
  published 
  the 
  following 
  

   reports, 
  based 
  on 
  collections 
  of 
  fish 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  

   steamer 
  A 
  Ibatross 
  : 
  _ 
  

  

  Report 
  on 
  the 
  fishes 
  dredged 
  in 
  deep 
  water 
  near 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands, 
  with 
  

   descriptions 
  and 
  figures 
  of 
  twenty-three 
  new 
  species, 
  by 
  Charles 
  Henry 
  Gilbert 
  

   and 
  Frank 
  Cramer. 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  vol. 
  xix, 
  pp. 
  

   403^35 
  (with 
  plates 
  xxxvi-xlviii). 
  

  

  Descriptions 
  of 
  twenty-two 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  fishes 
  collected 
  l)y 
  the 
  steamer 
  Albatross, 
  

   of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission, 
  by 
  Charles 
  Henry 
  Gilbert. 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  IT. 
  S. 
  

   National 
  Museum, 
  vol. 
  xix, 
  pp. 
  437-457 
  (with 
  plates 
  xlix-lv). 
  

  

  Appropriations 
  were 
  made 
  by 
  Congress 
  for 
  the 
  operations 
  of 
  the 
  Com- 
  

   mission 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  30, 
  1896, 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Salaries 
  $182,060 
  

  

  Miscellaneous 
  expenses 
  : 
  

  

  Administration 
  9, 
  000 
  

  

  Propagation 
  of 
  food-fishes 
  115, 
  000 
  

  

  Maintenance 
  of 
  vessels 
  30, 
  .500 
  

  

  Inquiry 
  respecting 
  food-fishes 
  10, 
  800 
  

  

  Statistical 
  inquiry 
  5, 
  000 
  

  

  A 
  report, 
  showing 
  in 
  detail 
  the 
  expenditures 
  of 
  these 
  appropriations, 
  

   was 
  submitted 
  to 
  Congress 
  December 
  6, 
  1897. 
  

  

  J. 
  J. 
  Brice, 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Fish 
  and 
  Fisheries. 
  

  

  F. 
  R. 
  97 
  IE 
  

  

  