L, REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



tlnced rate, in granting permission to carry fish and eggs in baggage 

 cars, and to make repairs at their shops. 



The Northern Pacific Railroad Company passed a car free from Saint 

 Paul to the Pacific coast and back. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa 

 F6 transported a car without charge with fish for the Southern Pacific 

 region. During the whitefish distribution the Grand Rapids and In- 

 diana Railroad lent the Commission a baggage car, which they trans- 

 ported free. 



C. — By Steam-ship Companies. 



The foreign steam-ship companies, without exception, have continued 

 to transport free of charge the fish and eggs which are exchanged be- 

 tween the United States and foreign countries. 



Messrs. Glidden and Curtis, of Boston, furnished transportation for 

 a Fish Commission naturalist, Mr. Charles H. Townsend, from New 

 York to Swan Island, on board the schooner Mosquito. 



D. — Courtesies from Foreign Countries. 



Australia. — Mr. F. Abbott, of the botanical gardens, Hobart, Tas- 

 mania, in September sent some seeds of hardy Eucalyptus, and offered 

 to send those of Xymphcea gigantea, for the plant collections at the carp 

 ponds. 



England. — During the year, 61 soles were brought over alive from 

 Liverpool in the White Star steamer Britannic and placed in large 

 tanks at Wood's Holl, to be kept for breeding purposes. 



Germany. — On January 28, were received from the German Fishery 

 Association 50,000 eggs of a small whitefish (Coregonus albula) ; these 

 were forwarded to Bucksport, for hatching and planting in Maine 

 waters. On February 4, 50,000 additional eggs were received, and the 

 good ones sent to Northville for lakes in Michigan and adjacent States. 



During March, 1886, 104,000 eggs of the brown trout (Sahno fario) 

 were received. The good ones, 35,000 in number, were sent to North- 

 ville, Wytheville, and Cold Spring Harbor. On April 16, 50,000 eggs 

 were obtained from Max von dem Borne, of Berneuchen; these were 

 forwarded to Northville, Mich.; Madison, Wis.; and Cold Spring Har- 

 bor, N. Y. 



During March, 18S7, 58,000 eggs of the brown trout were received 

 from Max von dem Borne, and 50,000 from the German Fishery Asso- 

 ciation. 



On February 9, 1887, 20,000 eggs of the saibliug (Salvelinus alpimis) 

 were received from Berneuchen. On March 9 another consignment of 

 40,000 eggs arrived, one-half of them from Max von dem Borne, the 

 other from the German Fishery Association. 



Scotland. — On January 14, 1887, the Cold Spring Harbor Station re- 

 ceived 48,000 eggs of the Loch Leven trout (Sahno levenensis), from Sir 

 J. R. Gibson Maitland, proprietor of the Howietoun Fishery at Stirling. 



