REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XXV 
poses. * The building, erected for the manufacture of bullets, balls, and 
shot, furnished ample accommodations. 
Llett Washington with my party on the 8th of July; and in the course 
of a few days after arrival succeeded, with the assistance of friends 
in the city, in establishing satisfactory quarters for the season. Pro- 
fessor Verrill arrived on the 22d of July; Mr. Goode joining the party on 
the 17th, on his return from the fishery exposition at Berlin. As in 
previous. years, the superintendence of the work connected with the 
marine invertebrates was in charge of Prof. A. I. Verrill, assisted by 
Mr. J. H. Emerton as artist, and Messrs. Sanderson Smith, b. F. Coons, 
and E. A. Andrews. Mr. Richard Rathbun, a member of the National 
Museum, was also a helper in the general work; while the fishes were 
specially cared for by Messrs. H. L. Osborn and Frederick Gardiner. 
The Census branch of the Fish Commission also had its headquarters 
for the summer at Newport; the work being carried on, under the gen- 
eral direction of Mr. Goode, by Mr. Charles W. Smiley and a corps of 
assistants. Mr. T. B. Ferguson, Assistant Fish Commissioner, also had 
his headquarters at Newport. The various offices and laboratories, 
although widely separated in the city, were practically together in one 
establishment by means of connecting telephones. 
The sea service of the Commission was performed by the Fish Hawk, 
which reached Newport on the 2d of August, and was fairly at work 
about the 7th. Mr. Griswold’s wharf not being suitable, a permanent 
berth was obtained at the city wharf. Numerous trips were made dur- 
ing the season on the Fish Hawk, in the course of which all the region 
within 20 or 30 miles, including that about Block Island, was carefully 
examined. 
Towards the close of the season several trips were made in the Fish 
Hawk to the edge of the Gulf Stream, and an extraordinary amount of 
animal life of a very varied fauna, differing from what was previously 
known on the American coast, was brought to light. The first of these 
trips was made in the end of September, and the second in the begin- 
ning of October; the vessel starting out in an afternoon, running all 
night, and reaching the ground in the morning; then spending the day, 
and returning to Newport the next night. 
Vast numbers of species new to science were secured. Of mollusea 
alone, out of one hundred and seventy-five species collected, forty proved 
to be new to science. Twenty new species of deep-sea fishes were ob- 
tained. : 
The most important observations of the season in this off-shore region 
were those made upon the tile-fish, to which reference has been made 
in a previous report. The range of this valuable fish was greatly ex- 
tended, and its existence in immense numbers satisfactorily determined. 
For the purpose of investigating the tile fish and its grounds from a 
fisherman’s point of view, a Noank fishing-schooner was chartered and 
sent out with instructions to ascertain how readily the fish could be 
