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80 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
Correlations of weight, length, and other body measurements in the weakfish, 
Cynosion regalis. By William J. Crozier and Selig Hecht. Bulletin, vol. xxx1m1, 
1913, p. 139-148, 4 text fig. 
The fat-absorbing function of the alimentary tract of the king salmon. By 
Charles W. Greene. Bulletin, vol. xxx, 1913, p. 149-176, pl. x1—xv. 
Notes on the habits, morphology of the reproductive organs, and embryology 
of the viviparous fish Gambusia affinis. By Albert Kuntz. Bulletin, vol. 
Xxx1II, 1913, p. 177-190, pl. xv1—xtx. 
Sporozo6n parisites of certain fishes in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Mass. 
By C. W. Hahn. Bulletin, vol. xxxii, 1913, p. 191-214, pl. xx—xx1. 
Fur seals and other life in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, in 1914. By Wilfred 
H. Osgood, Edward A. Preble, and George H. Parker. Bulletin, vol. xxxtv, 
1914, p. 1-172, pl. xvi, 24 maps. 
SPECIAL PUBLICATION. 
Report of Alaska investigations in 1914. By EH. Lester Jones, 155 p., illus. 
ECONOMIC CIRCULARS. 
Commercial possibilities of the goosefish, a neglected food; with 10 recipes. 
5 p. Dee. 15, 1914. 
Mussel resources of the Tensas River of Louisiana. 7p. April 9, 1915. 
The common and scientific names of fresh-water mussels. 4 p. April 8, 1915. 
Concerning the mortality of the soft clams at Essex, Mass. 4 p., illus. April 
18, 1915. 
STATISTICAL BULLETINS. 
Monthly statements showing by species and fishing grounds the quantity and 
values of certain fishery products landed at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., by 
American fishing vessels. 1-sheet bulletin. 
Statement, by months, of the quantities and values of certain fishery products 
Janded at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., by American fishing vessels during the 
year 1914. 1-sheet bulletin. 
Statement, by fishing grounds, of the quantities and values of certain fishery 
products landed at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., by American fishing vessels 
during the calendar year 1914. 1-sheet bulletin. 
Fresh-water pearl button industry of the United States in 1912. 1-sheet 
bulletin. 
Fresh-water mussel fishery of streams tributary to the Great Lakes and the 
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi River 
in 1913. 1-sheet bulletin. 
Lobster fishery of the Atlantic Coast States in 1913. 1-sheet bulletin. 
Beginning with June, 1915, a monthly publication, entitled Fish- 
eries Service Bulletin, was started and seems destined to serve a use- 
ful purpose. The objects, as stated in the first issue, are to bring 
into closer touch the headquarters and the field service and to estab- 
lish a means of official communication between the administrative 
offices and all employees. The publication is supphed to each em- 
ployee of the Bureau, to State fishery authorities, to the press, and 
to private individuals interested or identified with the fisheries in 
their broad aspects. 
The Bureau has at its headquarters in Washington a hbrary re- 
puted to be the most complete in the world in publications on the 
fisheries and related subjects. Auxiliary libraries are maintained at 
the laboratories at Woods Hole, Mass., Beaufort, N. C., and Fairport, 
Towa, and there is a small but well-selected collection of books on 
the Fisheries steamer Albatross on the Pacific coast. The main 
library contains over 29,000 volumes, that at Woods Hole about 2,000, 
and those at Beaufort and Fairport about 1,000 each. All are being 
rapidly augmented by purchase and exchange. These publications 
are intended primarily for workers in the Bureau’s service, but the 
