﻿CVI 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  of 
  1885 
  -'86, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Frank 
  N. 
  Clark 
  ; 
  the 
  operations 
  at 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   salmon 
  and 
  trout 
  stations 
  on 
  the 
  McCloud 
  Eiver, 
  in 
  California, 
  for 
  

   1885, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Livingston 
  Stone 
  ; 
  two 
  reports 
  on 
  the 
  work 
  in 
  Maine 
  (on 
  

   the 
  propagation 
  of 
  Penobscot 
  salmon 
  and 
  Schoodic 
  salmon) 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Charles 
  G. 
  Atkins 
  j 
  a 
  report 
  on 
  an 
  oyster 
  investigation 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  

   waters 
  with 
  the 
  steamer 
  Lookout, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Eugene 
  G. 
  Blackford, 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  fish 
  commissioners 
  of 
  New. 
  York 
  ; 
  the 
  operations 
  at 
  the 
  Saint 
  Jerome 
  

   oyster-breeding 
  station, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  William 
  deC. 
  Ravenel 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  report 
  on 
  

   the 
  thermometers 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  H. 
  Kidder. 
  

  

  « 
  

   B. 
  — 
  The 
  Fisheries. 
  

  

  The 
  four 
  articles 
  in 
  this 
  section 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  more 
  general 
  nature, 
  three 
  of 
  

   them 
  pertaining 
  to 
  the 
  fishing 
  industries 
  of 
  European 
  countries. 
  The 
  

   first 
  is 
  a 
  report 
  by 
  Capt. 
  Joseph 
  W. 
  Collins 
  on 
  the 
  discovery 
  and 
  in- 
  

   vestigation 
  of 
  the 
  fishing-grounds 
  visited 
  by 
  the 
  steamer 
  Albatross 
  

   during 
  a 
  cruise 
  along 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Mexico, 
  with 
  

   notes 
  on 
  the 
  Gulf 
  fisheries, 
  having 
  special 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  fisheries 
  off 
  

   the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  Florida. 
  This 
  is 
  illustrated 
  by 
  ten 
  plates, 
  and 
  has 
  a 
  

   special 
  index. 
  A 
  paper 
  follows 
  containing 
  extracts 
  from 
  the 
  Norwegian 
  

   fishery 
  statistics 
  for 
  1884, 
  by 
  Boye 
  Strom. 
  The 
  next 
  article 
  is 
  a 
  trans- 
  

   lation 
  from 
  the 
  Norwegian 
  Fishery 
  Gazette 
  on 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  klip- 
  

   fish, 
  which 
  treats 
  of 
  the 
  salting 
  and 
  drying 
  of 
  codfish 
  in 
  general, 
  but 
  

   with 
  more 
  particular 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  process 
  as 
  carried 
  on 
  in 
  Norway. 
  

   The 
  last 
  paper 
  is 
  an 
  extract 
  from 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  G. 
  Bouchon-Brandely 
  to 
  

   the 
  French 
  minister 
  of 
  marine 
  and 
  the 
  colonies, 
  on 
  pearls 
  and 
  mother- 
  

   of-pearl 
  at 
  Tahiti 
  and 
  the 
  Tuamotu 
  Archipelago, 
  which 
  gives 
  a 
  very 
  

   good 
  idea 
  of 
  this 
  new 
  and 
  growing 
  industry 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  Pacific. 
  

  

  C. 
  — 
  Oyster 
  Culture. 
  

  

  The 
  one 
  article 
  in 
  this 
  section 
  it 
  is 
  hoped 
  will 
  prove 
  of 
  remarkably 
  

   practical 
  value, 
  in 
  that 
  it 
  contains 
  an 
  exposition 
  of 
  the 
  principles 
  of 
  a 
  

   rational 
  system 
  of 
  oyster 
  culture, 
  together 
  with 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  

   and 
  practical 
  method 
  of 
  obtaining 
  oyster 
  spat 
  on 
  a 
  scale 
  of 
  commercial 
  

   importance. 
  It 
  is 
  by 
  Prof. 
  John 
  A. 
  Eyder, 
  is 
  illustrated 
  by 
  four 
  plates, 
  

   and 
  is 
  provided 
  with 
  a 
  special 
  index. 
  

  

  D. 
  — 
  Scientific 
  Investigation. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  five 
  papers 
  in 
  this 
  section, 
  the 
  first 
  is 
  a 
  report 
  by 
  Sidney 
  I. 
  

   Smith 
  on 
  the 
  decapod 
  Crustacea 
  of 
  the 
  Albatross 
  dredgmgs 
  off 
  the 
  east 
  

   coast 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  and 
  autumn 
  of 
  1884, 
  il- 
  

   lustrated 
  by 
  twenty 
  plates 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  special 
  index. 
  The 
  next 
  is 
  an 
  

   article 
  by 
  John 
  A. 
  Ryder 
  on 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  cetacea, 
  together 
  

   with 
  a 
  consideration 
  of 
  the 
  probable 
  homologies 
  of 
  the 
  flukes 
  of 
  ceta- 
  

   ceans 
  and 
  sirenians. 
  This 
  is 
  furnished 
  with 
  three 
  plates, 
  and 
  has 
  also 
  

   an 
  index 
  of 
  its 
  own. 
  The 
  following 
  article 
  is 
  also 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Ryder, 
  on 
  the 
  

   development 
  of 
  osseous 
  fishes, 
  including 
  marine 
  and 
  fresh-water 
  forms, 
  

  

  