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  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

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  rend 
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  Oreille. 
  — 
  This 
  lake, 
  situated 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  part 
  of 
  

   Idaho, 
  was 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  investigation 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Alexander 
  and 
  Professor 
  

   Cox, 
  begiiiiiiiigou 
  JuneliS, 
  189G, 
  and 
  extending 
  for 
  some 
  time 
  into 
  July. 
  

   The 
  object 
  of 
  the 
  inquiry 
  was 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  concerning 
  Lake 
  Wash- 
  

   ington, 
  namely, 
  to 
  ascertain 
  if 
  the 
  fry 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  whitefish 
  planted 
  

   there 
  by 
  the 
  Commission 
  in 
  1889 
  had 
  survived, 
  and 
  the 
  result 
  was 
  also 
  

   the 
  same. 
  Both 
  gill 
  nets 
  and 
  seines 
  were 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  examination, 
  

   but 
  the 
  conditions 
  proved 
  very 
  unsatisfactory 
  for 
  the 
  work, 
  the 
  water 
  

   being 
  unusually 
  high. 
  Important 
  observations, 
  however, 
  were 
  made 
  

   respecting 
  the 
  physical 
  characteristics 
  of 
  the 
  lake 
  and 
  the 
  fishes 
  and 
  

   other 
  forms 
  of 
  life 
  which 
  inhabit 
  it. 
  This 
  was 
  done 
  with 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  

   determining 
  whether 
  its 
  waters 
  were 
  suitable 
  for 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  important 
  

   fishes 
  not 
  now 
  native 
  to 
  it, 
  and 
  whether 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  new 
  forms 
  

  

  was 
  advisable. 
  

  

  INQUIRIES 
  RESPECTING 
  THE 
  SHAD. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1896 
  specimens 
  of 
  shad 
  were 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  

   Black 
  Warrior 
  Iviver 
  at 
  Tuscaloosa, 
  Ala., 
  which 
  proved 
  upon 
  exam- 
  

   ination 
  to 
  ])resent 
  such 
  marked 
  dift'ereuces 
  from 
  the 
  common 
  shad 
  

   of 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast 
  rivers 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  classed 
  as 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  

   under 
  the 
  name 
  Alosa 
  alahamw 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Evermanu.* 
  It 
  agrees 
  

   entirely 
  in 
  structure 
  with 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  young 
  shad 
  collected 
  at 
  Pensa- 
  

   cola, 
  Fla., 
  in 
  1882, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  David 
  S. 
  Jordan, 
  who 
  considered 
  them 
  at 
  

   the 
  time 
  to 
  represent 
  a 
  new 
  species, 
  but 
  withheld 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  

   them 
  from 
  publication. 
  The 
  significance 
  of 
  the 
  discovery 
  in 
  1890 
  was 
  

   not 
  appreciated 
  until 
  it 
  was 
  too 
  late 
  to 
  make 
  extensive 
  investigations 
  

   in 
  the 
  South, 
  but 
  the 
  collections 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   ISTatioual 
  Museum 
  were 
  carefully 
  gone 
  over, 
  and 
  visits 
  were 
  paid 
  to 
  the 
  

   Potomac, 
  Sus(juehanna, 
  Delaware, 
  Hudson, 
  and 
  Connecticut 
  rivers, 
  

   where 
  large 
  numbers 
  of 
  specimens 
  were 
  examined. 
  No 
  examples 
  of 
  

   the 
  new 
  species 
  were 
  found 
  among 
  the 
  material 
  from 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  rivers 
  

   on 
  the 
  eastern 
  coast. 
  According 
  to 
  Prof. 
  Evermann 
  — 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  iiudoulitedly 
  the 
  native 
  shad 
  of 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Mexico 
  aud 
  tributary 
  streams, 
  

   though 
  it 
  is 
  i)iobably 
  less 
  abuudaut 
  in 
  those 
  waters 
  than 
  Aluaa 
  supidissima, 
  which 
  

   has 
  been 
  extensively 
  introduced 
  there 
  by 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission. 
  

  

  WOODS 
  HOLE 
  LABORATORY. 
  

  

  The 
  Woods 
  Hole 
  laboratory 
  of 
  the 
  Commission, 
  with 
  its 
  exceptional 
  

   advantages 
  for 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  marine 
  biology 
  in 
  all 
  its 
  branches, 
  was 
  

   kept 
  open 
  as 
  usual 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1895. 
  Besides 
  the 
  inquiries 
  

   conducted 
  there 
  by 
  its 
  employees, 
  advantage 
  was 
  taken 
  of 
  the 
  cus- 
  

   tomary 
  facilities 
  granted 
  to 
  independent 
  workers 
  by 
  thirty 
  jDersons 
  

   interested 
  in 
  special 
  lines 
  of 
  investigation, 
  who 
  represented 
  twenty 
  

   different 
  institutions 
  of 
  learning 
  of 
  greater 
  or 
  less 
  prominence. 
  The 
  

   supervision 
  generally 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  station 
  at 
  this 
  season 
  by 
  the 
  Com- 
  

   missioner, 
  whose 
  illness 
  prevented 
  his 
  being 
  present, 
  and 
  whose 
  death 
  

   occurred 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  summer, 
  was 
  greatly 
  missed. 
  

  

  'Description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  shad 
  {Alosa 
  alabamw) 
  from 
  Alabama. 
  By 
  Barton 
  

   Warren 
  Evermann. 
  Rept. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Com. 
  for 
  1895, 
  pp. 
  203-205. 
  

  

  