REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XXI 
tination in excellent condition. Of this lot about half were presented 
by him, in the name of the Fish Commission, to the Hungarian Goy- 
ernment. 
Two hundred and fifty thousand eggs of white-fish were also sent to 
Herr von Behr, per steamer Donau, on the 25th of December. 
France.—In France the Société @Acclimatation received a number of 
egos of both land-locked salmon and California salmon. About 2,000 
of the former hatched out, and were to be placed in Lake Chauvette, 
a very deep, clear, and cold lake in Auvergne. The California salmon, 
after being hatched out, were divided among six different rivers of 
France. 
England.—England has, so far, shown very little interest in the 
American food-fishes, and, indeed, may be said to be much behind the 
greater part of continental Europe in relation to fish culture generally. 
A London company, however, made application for and received a 
number of eggs of the California salmon, which were sent to Mr. Capel, 
of the Cray Fishery, in Kent, to be hatched out. 
Netherlands.—In response to an application from the Netherlands a 
number of eggs of the California salmon were forwarded and success- 
fully hatched out. 
Guatemala.—Correspondence was carried on with Dr. Fenner in ref- 
erence to the introduction of useful food-fishes into Guatemala. None, 
however, were actually transmitted. 
Ecuador and Guadeloupe.—A similar correspondence was entertained, 
in regard to Eeuador, with Mr. Frederick Wesson, of New York, and 
with Guadeloupe through Mr. Charles Bartlett, United States consul. 
An application from this island for eggs of the brook-trout was turned 
over to Mr. Livingston Stone to be filled. 
Canada —To Canada, as in previous years, many eggs of the Cali- 
fornia saimon were forwarded, as also a number of carp. 
The minuter details of distribution of the special kinds of fish sent to 
foreign countries will be found in tbe proper portion of the present 
report. The transmissions to Europe have been greatly facilitated by 
the very liberal conduct of the French and German steamship compa- 
nies in carrying the eggs free of charge and with the utmost possible 
care. 
B.—BERLIN FISHERY EXHIBITION. 
5.—ITS ORIGIN AND SCOPE. 
In the year 1878 the Deutsche Fischerei- Verein, of Berlin, an organiza- 
tion having somewhat the same relationship to Germany that the United 
States Fish Commission has to the United States, determined, by per- 
mission of its Government, to invite the world to an international fish- 
eries exhibition. 
This was designed to include specimens of the animals and plants of 
the waters useful or injurious to man; illustrations of the apparatus bv 
