8 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Foreign visitors. — A great many persons from foreign countries made 

 a special study of the apparatus and methods employed by the United 

 States Fish Commission. Several of these visitors made reports to 

 their G-overnments, embracing in them an account of the exhibit of the 

 Commission. 



Courtesies. — In addition to the articles deposited by the Commission 

 in the National Museum that institution lent for exhibition numerous 

 objects illustrating fish-culture and the fisheries. 



The Bureau of Engraving and Printing furnished a supply of 

 macerated greenback pulp for making casts. 



The Department of Agriculture detailed a specialist to investigate 

 a fish parasite which proved very destructive during the progress of 

 the Exposition. 



Through the instrumentality of the late Hon. F. B. Stockbridge a 

 number of tank cars belonging to the Standard Oil Company were 

 gratuitously lent for the purpose of conveying salt water from More- 

 head City, 1ST. C, to Jackson Park, Chicago, the arrangement having 

 been completed through the agent of the company, Mr. Howard Page. 



The following railroads granted free transportation to United States 

 Fish Commission cars while engaged in World's Fair work during the 

 fiscal year 1893-94 : Chesapeake and Ohio : Chicago and West Michigan ; 

 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and 

 St. Louis; Flint and Pere Marquette; Louisville and Nashville; Michi- 

 gan Central; Wabash; Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern; Chi- 

 cago and Northwestern; Des Moines, Northern and Western; Illinois 

 Central; Lake Harbor; and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. 



Acknowledgments are due to numerous parties for gifts or loans of 

 models of vessels and boats, apparatus of capture, whaling apparatus, 

 fish-cultural apparatus, angling apparatus, publications, etc., to which 

 reference is made in the report upon the exhibit. 



At the close of the Exposition the fishery exhibit of Japaii was pre- 

 sented to the United States Fish Commission through Commissioner 

 C. Matsudaira. This was one of the most interesting exhibits in the 

 Fisheries building. 



The total expenses of the exhibit to September 30, 1894, amounted 

 to $89,789.60. 



The affairs of the exhibit were wound up before the close of the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1894, and the representative returned to his duty 

 in charge of the division of fish-culture. 



LIBRARY AND PUBLICATIONS. 



The accessions of books to the library, mainly secured by exchange 

 for the publications of the Commission, and by gift, numbered 958 vol- 

 umes. The policy of distributing the various special papers forming 

 parts of the annual reports and bulletins in advance of the issue of the 

 completed volumes was continued. 



