XXII REPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



On the 30th, through the courtesy of the Treasury Department, the 

 vessel was examined by the local inspector at Norfolk. After some 

 service in the neighborhood of Saint Jerome Station, the Lookout was 

 ordered to the Delaware Bay for the purpose of continuing the Spanish 

 mackerel investigations, but having broken her propeller off Chinco- 

 teague, was compelled to return to :N'orfolk, in which vicinity she was 

 detained until the latter part of August, unfortunately too late for the 

 mackerel spawning season in the Delaware. The vessel was thence 

 transferred to the Wood's HoU Station. 



Shortly after her arrival, on application of Mr. E. G. Blackford, one 

 of the fish commissioners of I^ew York, she was detailed for service 

 with that commission to enable it to make some investigations as to 

 the condition of the oyster-beds in Long Island Sound. From there 

 she was transferred to the Great South Bay, where an investigation of 

 the marine fauna was being conducted under the supervision of Dr. 

 Tarleton H. Bean. On the completion of these assignments by Octo- 

 ber 8, the Lookout returned to Wood's Holl and was used to transfer 

 the launch and small boat from that station to Battery Station, at 

 Havre de Grace. 



During the month of November she was used in the transfer of 

 equipment between Battery and Saint Jerome Stations and in the in- 

 vestigations of the oyster-beds of Tangier Sound and the Chesapeake 

 Bay in the neighborhood of Point Lookout. 



On the Lookout's return from Washington to Baltimore she rescued 

 the disabled schooner American Coaster off Annapolis and towed her to 

 Baltimore. 



During the month of JSTovember the vessel was used in towing lum- 

 ber, coal, &c., from Havre de Grace to Battery Station, until work was 

 discontinued on account of the closing of navigation in the upper bay 

 by ice. On the 23d of December the Lookout was transferred from 

 Battery Station to Baltimore, and there fitted out for a trip to the 

 Southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts. 



D. — Assignments of Naval Officers. 



The list of changes in the assignment of naval officers connected 

 with the service of the Fish Commission, either on vessels or on shore, 

 has been as follows : 



On February 6 Passed Assistant Engineer W. L. Bailie was de- 

 tached from the Fish Hawk and ordered to shore duty at Wood's Holl, 

 Mass.; and on the 8th of February Passed Assistant Engineer I. S. K. 

 Eeeves was ordered to the Fish Hawk. 



On March 6 Ensign L. W. Piepmeyer was detailed from the Tallapoosa 

 and sent to the Fish Hawk as first officer. 



On June 18 Surgeon C. G. Herndon was relieved from duty with the 

 A-lbatross and Surgeon J. M. Flint ordered in his stead. 



