

CONTENTS 



Page. 



Report of the Commissioner 1-19 



Report on the Propagation and Distribution of Food-fishes. By Tar- 



leton H . Bean . , 20-80 



Report upon the Inquiry respecting Food-fishes and the Fishing- 

 grounds. By Richard Rathbun 81-114 



Report of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries. By 



Hugh M.Smith 115-175 



APPENDICES. 



1. Report of the Representative of the U. S. Fish Commission at the 



World's Columbian Exposition. By Tarleton H. Bean . . 177-196 



2. Report upon the Operations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 



Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1894. By Z. L. Tanner. . . 197-278 



3. Description of a Closing Tow net for Submarine Use at all Depths. 



By C. H. Townsend 279-282 



4. The Whitefishes of North America. By Barton W. Evermann and 



HughM. Smith 283-324 



5. A Report upon the Fishes of the Missouri River Basin. By Barton 



W. Evermann and Ulysses O. Cox 325-429 



6. A Review of the Foreign Fishery Trade of the United States. By 



Charles H. Stevenson 431-571 



7. Remarks on the Movements and Breeding-grounds of the Fur-seal, 



based on Observations made while on the United States Naval 

 Patrol of Bering Sea in 1894. By J. J. Brice. 573-577 



8. An Annotated Catalogue of the Fishes known from the State of Ver- 



mont. By Barton W. Evermann and William C. Kendall 579-604 



9. A Report upon the Fishes of Southwestern Minnesota. By Ulysses O. 



Cox 605-616 



10. List of Publications of the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries 

 from its Establishment in February, 1871, to February, 1896. By 



Charles W. Scudder 617-706 



in 





