REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LXXXV 



D.— ABSTRACT OF THE ARTICLES IN THE APPENDIX. 



25. — Classification of Articles. 



Id the general Appendix to this report will be found a series of over 

 forty separate papers treating upon matters related to the work of the 

 Fish Commission. These are classified under six headings, as follows : 



A. — General. 



The first paper is by Lieut. Z. L. Tanner, illustrated by three plates, 

 and gives an account of the Fish Hawk's work during the third year of 

 its service. A similar i^aper by Lieut. W. M. Wood gives an account of 

 the work done by the Lookout while under his command. A paper 

 prepared from notes of the late F. S. Eastman, with six plates, illustrates 

 the new Fish Commission car. Colonel McDonald discussed the 

 subject of fish-ways. A foreign estimate of the United States exhibit 

 at Berlin is reprinted from a German publication. Mr. Smiley has ar- 

 ranged for reference: (1) a list of the (1,817) principal lakes of the United 

 States, with an index ; and (2) a list in systematic order of the princi- 

 pal rivers of the United States, and containing nearly six thousand 

 items. 



B. — The Fisheries. 



This contains papers on the whale fisheries, by F. C. Sanford and 

 Thomas Southwell; extracts from the Scotch Fishery Board's report on 

 the Scotch fisheries, apparatus, &c. ; a history of the Tile fish, by Cap- 

 tain Collins, with a special index and two i)lates ; and note on the 

 preservation of nets and sa^ils, by Prof. F. H. Storer, of Boston. 



C. — Natural History and Biological Research. 



In this section are presented: (1) Notes on various species of sea 

 birds which are used for bait, by Captain Collins, with one figure and 

 an index ; (2) a list of the fishes collected by the Fish Commission at 

 Wood's HoU in 1881, by Dr. T. H. Bean ; (3) a report on the Decapod 

 Crustacea of the Albatross dredgings in 1883, by Sidney I. Smith, with 

 ten plates and an index ; (4) a translation of V. Hensen's paper on the 

 eggs of the plaice, flounder, and cod, with one figure ; (5) an important 

 contribution to the embryography of osseous fishes, by J. A. Ryder, 

 with twelve plates and an index ; (6) directions for preserving embry- 

 onic materials for microscopic analysis, by the same author ; (7) notes 

 upon the principal aquaria of Europe in 1875, by Professor Blake, of 

 Yale College; and (8) some notes upon the marine fauna of the New 

 England coast and Vineyard Sound, by Professor Verrill, of Yale Col- 

 lege, with a special index thereto. 



