﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  XXXV 
  

  

  Life-Saving 
  Service. 
  — 
  As 
  in 
  several 
  preceding 
  years, 
  the 
  keepers 
  and 
  

   patrolmen 
  have 
  reported 
  the 
  stranding 
  of 
  marine 
  animals, 
  and 
  co-oper- 
  

   ated 
  with 
  representatives 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  in 
  securing 
  

   specimens 
  for 
  study 
  and 
  exhibition. 
  Among 
  the 
  valuable 
  accessions 
  

   was 
  a 
  pigmy 
  sperm-whale, 
  reported 
  on 
  January 
  1 
  by 
  James 
  B. 
  Hobbs, 
  

   keeper 
  of 
  Kitty 
  Hawk, 
  JST. 
  C. 
  

  

  Another 
  accession 
  was 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  beach 
  near 
  High 
  Head 
  L.-S. 
  

   Station 
  by 
  Mr. 
  B. 
  C. 
  Sparrow, 
  superintendent 
  of 
  the 
  Second 
  L.-S. 
  Dis- 
  

   trict, 
  and 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  so 
  called 
  "dish-rag 
  gourd" 
  (Luffa 
  wgyptica). 
  

   October 
  24 
  Joel 
  Eidgway, 
  keeper 
  of 
  Barnegat 
  L.-S. 
  Station, 
  reported 
  

   a 
  whale 
  (Kogia 
  breviceps) 
  ten 
  feet 
  long, 
  stranded 
  near 
  the 
  station. 
  

  

  War 
  Department. 
  — 
  Permission 
  to 
  use 
  the 
  facilities 
  at 
  Fort 
  Wash- 
  

   ington 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  hatching 
  shad 
  has 
  been 
  continued 
  during 
  the 
  

   present 
  year. 
  

  

  Signal 
  Office. 
  — 
  General 
  Hazen 
  has 
  continued 
  to 
  furnish 
  weather 
  indi- 
  

   cations 
  to 
  Wood's 
  Holl 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  season, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  

   steamer 
  Lookout 
  during 
  its 
  trip 
  along 
  the 
  southern 
  coast 
  and 
  the 
  Gulf 
  

   of 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  Navy 
  Department. 
  — 
  The 
  officers 
  and 
  crews 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  vessels 
  of 
  

   the 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  have 
  been 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  Navy 
  Department 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  year, 
  and 
  the 
  facilities 
  of 
  various 
  navy 
  -yards, 
  particularly 
  that 
  

   at 
  Washington, 
  have 
  been 
  extended 
  to 
  the 
  Commission. 
  

  

  Bureau 
  of 
  Construction 
  and 
  Repair. 
  — 
  The 
  launches 
  Nos. 
  55 
  and 
  68 
  

   have 
  been 
  furnished 
  for 
  several 
  years, 
  and 
  their 
  loan 
  was 
  continued 
  

   during 
  the 
  present 
  year. 
  

  

  Bureau 
  of 
  Steam 
  Engineering. 
  — 
  On 
  November 
  11 
  Commodore 
  Charles 
  

   H. 
  Loring 
  granted 
  the 
  loan 
  of 
  some 
  tools 
  for 
  use 
  at 
  Havre 
  de 
  Grace 
  

   and 
  at 
  Wood's 
  Holl. 
  

  

  Bureau 
  of 
  Equipment 
  and 
  Recruiting. 
  — 
  Coal 
  was 
  furnished 
  to 
  the 
  Fish 
  

   Commission 
  vessels 
  upon 
  requisition, 
  at 
  contract 
  prices, 
  as 
  in 
  preceding 
  

   years. 
  

  

  Inter 
  ior 
  Department 
  — 
  Patent 
  Office. 
  — 
  The 
  Official 
  Gazette 
  of 
  the 
  

   Patent 
  Office 
  has 
  been 
  supplied 
  weekly, 
  as 
  heretofore, 
  and 
  specifica- 
  

   tions 
  and 
  drawings 
  of 
  all 
  patents 
  relating 
  to 
  fish 
  aud 
  fishing 
  apparatus 
  

   as 
  issued. 
  

  

  Senate 
  and 
  House 
  of 
  Eepresentatives— 
  Folding-Rooms.— 
  The 
  

   superintendents 
  of 
  the 
  Senate 
  and 
  House 
  folding-rooms 
  kindly 
  con- 
  

   sented 
  to 
  envelop 
  the 
  quarto 
  report, 
  which 
  was 
  issued 
  in 
  two 
  volumes 
  

   December 
  20. 
  

  

  Health 
  Office 
  of 
  the 
  District 
  of 
  Columbia. 
  — 
  Statistics 
  of 
  

   the 
  Washington 
  fish-market 
  have 
  been 
  furnished 
  in 
  monthly 
  tables, 
  as 
  

   in 
  previous 
  years. 
  These 
  have 
  been 
  compiled 
  and 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  

   Fish 
  Commission 
  Bulletin. 
  

  

  B.— 
  By 
  the 
  Railroad 
  Companies 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  

  

  The 
  courtesies 
  extended 
  by 
  the 
  railroad 
  managers 
  have 
  been 
  : 
  (1) 
  

   The 
  transportation 
  of 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  cars 
  gratuitously 
  over 
  several 
  

  

  