LXXXVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



D. — The Oyster. 



In continuation of the data introduced in the report of 1880 npon 

 this subject will be found six papers, by Bouchon-Brandely, Brocchi, 

 .Winslow, Eyder, and Puysegur. The first two are translations from 

 the French and treat of French experiments. The three following 

 articles indicate what is being done in this matter by our own investi- 

 gators under the auspices of this Commission. Several illustrations 

 accompany these papers. 



E. — PROPAaATION OF FoOD-FlSHES. 



Under this head will be found detailed and statistical reports upon 

 the work of the United States Fish Commission in propagating and 

 distributing food-fishes, such as shad, herring, white-fish, trout, and sev- 

 eral kinds of salmon, by F. N. Clark, Livingston Stone, Charles G. At- 

 kins, W. M. Wood, Fred. Mather, M. McDonald, and Chas. W. Smiley. 

 There is also a report by Mr. Mather upon eggs shipped to Europe. 



Upon the subject of carp culture will be found a translation from the 

 German of Karl Mcklas's observations upon artificial feeding of carp ; 

 a report by Chas. W. Smiley of the distribution in 1879 and 1880 of 

 carp reared by the Fish Commission, and of the distribution in 1881, by 

 M. McDonald. 



F. — Miscellaneous. 



This section contains a report by Capt. J. W. Collins upon a cruise 

 of the Fish Hawk in Chesapeake Bay ; an article by Prof. A. E. Ver- 

 rill upon the physical characters of the continental border of the Gulf 

 Stream as revealed by the Fish Hawk explorations, 1880-'82 ; a list of 

 fishes propagated by the United States Fish Commission by Dr. T. H. 

 Bean; and an alphabetical index of the names of the six thousand rivers 

 of the United States treated under Appendix A hy Chas. W. Smiley. 



E.— SUPPLEMENT TO THE EEPORT PEOPER. 

 26. — LIST OF LIGHT-HOUSE KEEPERS RENDERING ASSISTANCE. 



The following is a list of the light-houses (with their keepers) at which 

 temperatures and occurrences of ocean fish have been observed during 

 a portion or all of the present year : 



List of ligM-Jiouses on tlie Atlantic coast at which ocean temperatures have been taken during 

 the year 1882, together with the numher of monthly reports made at each one. 



Petit Manan light-liouse, Petit Manan Island : 



George L. Upton, Millbridge, Me 12 



Mount Desert liglit-bouse, Mount Desert Rock : 



James A. Morris, Southwest Harbor, Me. (succeeded by Thomas Milan in Oc- 

 tober) 12 



Martinicus Rock light-house, Penobscot Bay: 



William G. Grant, Martinicus, Me 12 



