REPORT 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES 



FOR THE 



FISCAL YEAE ENDING JUNE 30, 1894. 



The appropriations for the work of the Commission for the period 

 covered by this report were as follows : 



Salaries $172, 120. 00 



Miscellaneous expenses: 



Administration 9, 000. 00 



Propagation and distribution of food- fishes 92, 181. 94 



Maintenance of vessels 30, 500. 00 



Inquiry respecting food-fishes 10, 800. 00 



Statistical inquiry 5, 400. 00 



For completion of the following stations in — 



Texas, at San Marcos 8,300.00 



Montana, at Bozeinan 6, 400. 00 



Vermont, at St. Johnsbury 8, 500. 00 



For repairs to Armory Building occupied by the United 



States Fish Commission 7, 100. 00 



Rent of temporary offices and transfer of records 2, 000. 00 



Detailed report of the expenditures under these appropriations was 

 made to Congress December 3, 1894 ( House Mis. Doc. No. 19, Fifty-third 

 Congress, third session). 



REPAIRS TO OFFICES. 



The building known as the Armory Building and occupied by the 

 offices of the United States Fish Commission was built in 1855 for the 

 care and preservation of military trophies of the Revolutionary and other 

 wars, aud for the use of the volunteers and militia of the District of 

 Columbia. In 1874 it was condemned by Col. O. E. Babcock, in charge 

 of public buildings and grounds, as old and unsightly, and its demolition 

 was recommended. From 1877 to 1888 it was used by the United States 

 National Museum for the storage of articles transferred from the Cen- 

 tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and the Secretary of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution states that the four floors, containing 5,000 square feet, 

 were filled witli these articles from toil to bottom. These heavy loads 

 had caused the floors to settle to such an extent as to cause apprehen- 



Note. — The operations of the Commission during the period under consideration 

 were under the direction of Commissioner Marshall McDonald, whose declining health, 

 however, prevented him from preparing a report covering them. His death occurred 

 September 1, 1895. The accompanying report, prepared by the chief clerk of the 

 Commission and the assistants in charge of the divisions, shows the work of the Com- 

 mission during the fiscal year 1893-94. 



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