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Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. — Eeference is made in 

 the Commissioner's preceding report to the investigations in these 

 States for the purpose of determining, as directed by Congress, the 

 advisability of establishing in them fish-cultural stations. The results 

 of these investigations were presented to Congress on January 24, 1894 

 (Mis. Doc. No. 53, Fifty-third Congress, second session). In this 

 report the following conclusion was submitted: 



From a consideration of the foregoing results of the examinations in the States of 

 Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, I would recommend the establishment 

 of but one station to supply the needs of South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, Wyo- 

 ming to be cared for by the station now being established at Bozeman, Mont. If a 

 new station is authorized, either Manchester or Decorah, Iowa, should be selected. 

 Which to recommend, however, I am not ready to say, final selection being depend- 

 ent upon a careful consideration of the respective sites from an engineering stand- 

 point, the certainty of their being secured by the Government, their cost, the expense 

 of adapting the water supply, etc., questions which cannot be determined in advance 

 of the actual authorization of a station. 



In case a station was authorized, an appropriation of $15,000 was 

 recommended. 



PROTECTION OF FISH IN POTOMAC RIVER. 



By act approved March 12, 1894, provisions of the act of March 2, 

 1885, entitled "An act to protect the fish in the Potomac Eiver in the 

 District of Columbia, and to provide a spawning ground for shad and 

 herring in the said Potomac River," were continued for a period of ten 

 years. Under this law, if properly enforced, reasonable hopes can be 

 entertained for still more appreciable results from the Commission's 

 efforts in stocking this river with shad. 



VISITS FROM OFFICIALS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



During this year the offices were visited by a number of representa- 

 tives of foreign countries, detailed by their governments to the World's 

 Columbian Exposition. Chicago, for the purpose of studying the fish- 

 eries and fish-cultural methods of the United States. Among these 

 may be mentioned Dr. Henri de Varigny, delegate of the minister of 

 commerce, Paris, France; Dr. Oscar Nordqvist, inspector of fisheries 

 of Finland, Helsingfors; Dr. Nicolas Borodine, Uralsk, Russia; Dr. L. 

 Wittmack, of Berlin, accompanied by Mr. Alfred Scliillinger, of 

 Munich, president of the fish-cultnral department of the Bavarian 

 State Fishery Association, in Sternberg, and Mr. Lewis Landau, of the 

 Hungarian ministry of agriculture; Dr. Ernst Ehrenbaum, of the 

 Royal Biological Station, Helgoland; Mr. Sakaye Sawatari, commis- 

 sioner of the Japanese Fisheries Society, and Mr. J. J. Annistead, 

 proprietor of the Solway fisheries, Dumfries, Scotland. 



