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weather at the Gloucester, Mass., station. This boat is especially 

 adapted for the work required, is 33 feet long and 9 feet beam, has an 

 8-horsepower motor, and is stoutly built with inclosed cabins. Launches 

 were purchased also for the Baker Lake (Wash.) station, and for the 

 auxiliary station at La Crosse, Wis. These are motor boats 27 feet 

 and 30 feet long-, respectively, and are indispensable for conducting 

 the work at those points. 



PUBLICATIONS AND LIBRARY. 



During the year the bound volumes of the report for 1903 and the 

 bulletin for 1902 were issued, the parts composing these volumes 

 having been published and distributed separately some time before. 

 The bulletin for 1903 has been reserved for the various contributions 

 on the aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands resulting from the 

 special investigations in 1901 and 1902; some of the special papers of 

 this series have already appeared, but owing to the large amount of 

 material in some of the collections and the time required for its study, 

 a year or more may elapse before the final volume is issued. The fol- 

 lowing pamphlet extracts from reports and bulletins were published 

 and distributed in 1905: 



Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 



for the year ending June 30, 1904. 

 Report of the special commission for the investigation of the lobster and the soft- 

 shell clam. Report for 1903. 

 Publications of the United States Fish Commission available for distribution on June 



30, 1903. Report for 1903. 

 The commercial fisheries of the interior lakes and rivers of New York and Vermont. 



By John N. Cobb. Report for 1903. 

 The echinoderms of the Woods Hole region. By Hubert Lyman Clark. Bulletin 



for 1902. 

 List of fishes dredged by the steamer Albatross off the coast of Japan in the summer 



of 1900, with descriptions of new species and a review of the Japanese Mac- 



rouridse. By David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks. Bulletin for 1902. 

 Investigations for the promotion of the oyster industry of North Carolina. By Cas- 

 well Grave. Report for 1903. 

 A revision of Malaclemmys, a genus of turtles. By William Perry Hay. Bulletin 



for 1904. 

 The medusa? of the Woods Hole region. By Charles W. Hargitt. Bulletin for 1904. 

 The osteology and immediate relations of the tile-fish, Lopholatilus chamadeonticeps. 



By Frederic A. Lucas. Bulletin for 1904. 

 The blood vascular system of the tile-fish, Lopholatilus chamadeonticeps. By C. F. 



Silvester. Bulletin for 1904. 

 The fish parasites of the genus Argulus found in the Woods Hole region. By Charles 



B. Wilson. Bulletin for 1904. 

 The seaweed industries of Japan. The utilization of seaweeds in the United States. 



By Hugh M. Smith. Bulletin for 1904. 

 The function of the lateral-line organs in fishes. By G. H. Parker. Bulletin for 



1904. 

 Isopods from the Alaska salmon investigation. By Harriet Richardson. Bulletin 



for 1904. 

 List of fishes collected in Boulder County, Colo., with description of a new species 



of Leuciscus. By Chancey Juday. Bulletin for 1904. 

 The biological relation of aquatic plants to the substratum. By Raymond H. Pond. 



Report for 1903. 

 State ichthyology of Massachusetts. By Theodore Gill. Report for 1904. 



