192 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



On July 25, 1893, the water was turned off at one of the pumping 

 stations at Jackson Park to make repairs, but fortunately no loss 

 occurred in the aquarium. Men were up all night for the purpose of 

 making water connections with hose borrowed from the fire department 



Thanks are due to Marshal Murphy, chief of the fire department, for 

 permission to connect hose with the plug outside of the aquarium build 

 ing, in the event of its becoming necessary to shut off the water again 

 for repairs or any other purpose. 



During the progress of the Exposition the Imperial Japanese Com- 

 mission, through Commissioner C. Matsudaira, signified its intention to 

 present the fisheries exhibit of Japan to the U. S. Fish Commission at 

 the close of the Exposition. After consultation with the Commissioner 

 of Fish and Fisheries the gift was accepted, and a few articles desired 

 by the Japanese Commission were promised them in exchange for tbeir 

 valuable collection, which filled 46 cases. These articles were deposited 

 in the Fisheries section of the United States National Museum upon 

 their arrival in Washington. 



Mr. Kokichi Mikimoto, of Miyeken, Japan, on behalf of the Japa- 

 nese Central Association, also presented numerous specimens showing 

 the growth of the pearl oyster for seven years. 



Acknowledgments are due to the following persons for gifts of rnodel- 

 of vessels and boats used in the fisheries: Gillman Hodgkins, Lamoine, 

 Me.; Louis King, Lamoine, Me.; Newell B. Coolidge, Lamoine, Me.: 

 Coolidge & Bros., Lamoine, Me.; Robert Dority, Sargentville, Me.; 

 D. D. Hodgkins, Lamoine, Me.; J. Brown, Lubec, Me.; Board of 

 Trade, New Bedford, Mass.; L. D. Ashby, Noank, Conn.; E. J. Tull, 

 Pocomoke City, Md.; H. Brusstar & Bro., Newport News, Va.; W. W. 

 Sweat, Tampa, Fla. 



From Mr. A. E. Crittenden, Middletown, Conn., was obtained an old- 

 time quadrant used by a fishing captain until about 1840. 



A model of a fish car or live box, used by fishermen of Cape Fear, 

 N. C, and made in the shape of a boat, was presented by Lieut. Robert 

 Piatt, U. S. N. 



Mr. J. M. K. South wick, Newport, R. I., presented to the Commission 

 a model of fish marketman's car, used by fishermen of southern New 

 England for keeping live fish and lobsters. 



Mr. Charles L. Marsh, Solomons, Calvert County, Md., presented for 

 exhibition a pair of his patented deep-water oyster tongs, with photo- 

 graphs illustrating their use. 



Capt. E. P. Herendeen, while at Point Barrow, Alaska, obtained 

 specimens of the whalebone gill nets used by the Eskimo in fishing, and 

 an ancient fishing spear from the Mackenzie River basin, through a 

 native of Herschel Island. 



Mr. F. E. Brown and Capt. E. Pierce, of New Bedford, Mass., lent a 

 unique collection of whaling apparatus, including many articles of his- 

 toric value as well as the principal implements now used by whalers. 



Mr. John A. Sawyer sent from the same place a darting guu harpoon 

 which had been strangely bent in the body of a whale. 



