EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XLIX 



Bj the plan just detailed the statistical matter gathered by the joint 

 efforts of the two organizations is assigned to the Census, together with 

 a sufficient amount of descriptive and explanatory text to make the 

 statistics fully intelligible, while the descriptive, historical, and natural 

 history papers are taken by the Fish Commission, these being enriched 

 by a sufficient amount of statistical detail to render them as useful as 

 possible for the class of readers and students for whom they are in- 

 teuded. 



The statistical results of the investigations have already been j^ub- 

 lished in a prelimiuary way. A series of si)ecial statistical tables ap- 

 peared in the Bulletius of the Census Office as follows : 



Census Bulletin (1) No. 176. 



(Preliminary Report uj)on the Pacific States and Territories); pre- 

 pared by Mr. G. Brown Goode from returns of Special Agents 

 Jordan, Swan, and Bean. Dated May 24, 1881. 4to, pp. 6(x2.). 



Census Bulletin (2) No. 261. 



Statistics of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes ; prepared by Mr. 

 Frederick W. True from notes of Special Agent Kumlien. 

 Dated September 1, 1881. 4to, pp. 8. 



Census Bulletin (3) No. 278. 



Statistics of the Fisheries of Maine ; prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll 

 from his own notes and those of Mr. C. G. Atkins. Dated No- 

 vember 22, 1881. 4to, pp. 47 (+1). 



Census Bulletin (4) No. 281. 



Statistics of the Fisheries of Virginia ; prepared by Col. Marshall 

 McDonald. Dated December 1, 1881. 4to, pp. 8. 



Census Bulletin (5) No. 291. 



Statistics of the Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and 

 Connecticut ; prepared by Mr. A. Howard Clark. Dated April 



5, 1882. .4to, pp. 7 (-fl). 



Census Bulletin (6) No. 295. 



Statistics of the Fisheries of Massachusetts ; prepared by Mr. A. 

 Howard Clark from returns of Special Agents, Wilcox, Clark, 

 True, Colhns, and Atwood. Dated March 1, 1882. 4to, pp. 

 35 (+ 1). 



Census Bulletin (7) No. 297. 



Commercial Fisheries of the Middle States ; prepared by Mr. R. E. 

 Earll and Col. M. McDonald. Dated Juoe 5, 1882. 4to, pp. 

 14. (This bulletin includes statistics of No. 4., C. B. No. 281.) 



Census Bulletin (8) No. 298. 



Commercial Fisheries of the Southern Atlantic States ; prepared 

 Mr. R. E. Earll and Col. McDonald. Dated June 5, 1882. 4to, 

 pp. 18. 

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