REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LIII 



with the exhibit made by the National Museum. The Commission was 

 also represented at the Nebraska State fair, in Lincoln, Nebr., by numer- 

 ous articles of interest, furnished at the request of Mr. W. L. May, a 

 member of the Nebraska State fish commission. The method of hatch- 

 ing whitefish eggs in the McDonald jars was exhibited, in April, at the 

 exposition building in Chicago, under the direction of Mr. J. F. Ellis, 

 3,000,000 eggs of the whitefish having been sent from the Northville 

 Station for that purpose. A similar exhibition, with respect to both 

 whitefish and brook-trout eggs, was made in December at an industrial 

 exposition held at Wilmington, Del., Dr. E. G. Shortlidge having charge 

 of the apparatus. 



11. — VISITS FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. 



A visit was received in September from Mr. Kadzutka Ito, commis- 

 sioner of fisheries for the island of Yezzo, under the Japanese Govern- 

 ment. Mr. Ito was commissioned by his Government to study the fishing 

 industries of the United States and the methods and results of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission. He is a graduate of the Imperial College of Agri- 

 culture at Sappora, and has been for several years chief of the bureau 

 of fisheries in the Department of the Hokkaido ; he is also an officer of 

 the bureau of colonization. While in the United States he inspected 

 nearly all of the stations of the Fish Commission and the principal 

 fishery centers. He remained in this country nine months. 



Dr. Filip Trybom, of the Swedish commission of fisheries, who ar- 

 rived in the United States in 1885, continued his studies in this country 

 until November, 1886, visiting the principal fishing ports and the hatch- 

 ing stations of both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and of the Great 

 Lakes. 



12.— DEATHS DURING THE YEAR. 



Notice of Capt. Hubbard C. Chester. — During this year the Fish Com- 

 mission lost one of its most valued members, Capt. Hubbard C. Ches- 

 ter, who died July 19, at the age of fifty-two years. A native of the 

 fishing town of Noank, near New London, Conn., Captain Chester, at 

 an early age, entered the whaling service, in which he gained rapid 

 promotion and received that thorough disciplining which, with his 

 natural tastes and great energy, specially fitted him as an associate of 

 Captain Hall in his Arctic expedition. The services which he rendered 

 as executive officer of the steamer Polaris, and his successful rescue of 

 the unfortunate party which drifted to sea on the detached ice-floe, 

 have gained him well-merited fame. 



Captain Chester joined the Fish Commission in 1874, soon after his re- 

 turn from the Polaris expedition, and has taken part in nearly all of its 

 branches of service. On the smaller steamers, before the Albatross 

 was built, he was generally in charge of the dredging operations, and ■ 



