914 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



THE NETHERLANDS. 



H. Gaccmx to S. F. Baird. 



Netherlands Aimerican Steam Navigation Company, 



27 South William Street, New York, August 31, 1877. 

 Spencer F. Baird, Esq., 



United States Commission Fish and Fisheries, 



Halifax, Nova Scotia : 

 Dear Sir : In reply to your esteemed favor of the 27tli instant, I beg 

 to inform yon that the steamers of onr line are appointed to leave this 

 port for Rotterdam as follows : Steamship Rotterdam, September 13 ; 

 steamshii) W. A. Scholten, September 27; steamship Maas, October 11 ; 

 steamship P. Caland, October 25 ; steamship Schiedam, November 1. 



There is no direct steamshij) communication between New York and 

 Amsterdam. 



Thanking you for your courtesy to our government, I remain, with 

 great respect, yours, very truly, 



H. CAZAUX. 



G. J. Bottemanne to S. F. Baird. 



Bergen-op-Zoom, 7 Novemler, 1877. 



Dear Sir : Inclosed you will receive the report of the assistant di- 

 rector of the zo(31ogical garden at Amsterdam to me about the S. quinnat 

 eggs you presented to our government. I am very sorry that it is such a 

 total failure. The chief of the department (finance), whom I hold my 

 commission under, has taken the necessary steps already, by his colleague 

 of the interior, to make a proper acknowledgment to the United States 

 Commission for the truly magnificent donation. 



Mr. Mather had telegraphed from New York "the starting ; this enabled 

 me to prepare in time. The 23d I wired to Southampton, in order tio 

 know the quantum Mr. Mather was bringing (your letter of the 9th of 

 October only reached me the 2Gth), and received an answer on the 24th. 

 Having no time to spare to run over to Bremerhaven, I had arranged 

 with Dr. Westerman, the managing director of the zoological garden, 

 that the asst. director should go to take charge of the eggs at Bremer- 

 haven. In the gardens, I may say, all were in high glee. Mr. Noord- 

 hoch Hegt telegraphed the time of his arrival, and so the whole board of 

 directors was present in the breeding-house, to be driven off in less than 

 no time as soon as the first box was opened, by the terrible smell ; it 

 was really a pity. As the report is pretty exhaustive, I will say nothing 

 more here. 



When going to Amsterdam, to make my arrangements for the eggs, I 

 touched at Leiden, and got from Professor Buys (secretary of the board 



