REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LV 



year, and the bound volumes were ready for distribution by the middle 

 of December. 



Quarto Reports. — Considerable progress was made with the quarto re- 

 ports relating to the fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, 

 which were ordered printed by an act of Congress passed in 1882. 

 These reports have been prepared by Prof. G. Brown Goode and a staff 

 of associates, under the joint co-operation of the Commissioner of Fish- 

 eries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census. The " Geographical 

 Eeview of the Fisheries," which, after being put in type, was trans- 

 ferred to the Department of the Interior, in 1885, for publication as a 

 volume of the Census Report, was returned to the Commission during 

 the current year, and will form Section n of the Quarto series. Only 

 the press-work and binding remain to be done. The account of the 

 fishing grounds of North America and of the ocean temperatures of the 

 Atlantic coast, now constituting Section in, and the report upon tbe 

 fishermen, forming Section iv, are also in type. Section v, in which 

 the History and Methods of the Fisheries are discussed, was nearly 

 ready for the Printer at the close of the year. 



Bulletin. — The printing of the Bulletin for the current year (Volume 

 vi) was begun early in February. Signatures were mailed to corre- 

 spondents March 30, July 23, October 22, and December 20. 



Pamphlets. — The following publications, mostly extracted from the 

 Annual Eeports for 1883, 1881, and 1885, have been issued during the 

 year for separate distribution : 



96. Tanner, Z. L. Report on the -work of tbe U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alba- 



tross for the year ending December 31, 1883. (From Report 1883, pp. 117-236.) 



97. Stone, Livingston. Explorations on the Columbia River from the head of 



Clarke's Fork to the Pacific Ocean, made in the summer of 1883, with reference 

 to the selection of a suitable place for establishing a salmon-breeding station. 

 (From Report 1883, pp. 237-258.) 



98. Atwater, W. O. Contributions to the knowledge of the chemical composition 



and nutritive values of American food-fishes and invertebrates. (From Re- 

 port 1883, pp. 433-499.) 



99. Verrill, A. E. Results of the explorations made by the steamer A Ibatross off the 



northern coast of the United States in 1883. (From Report 1883, pp. 503-699.) 



100. Bush, Katharine, J. List of deep-water mollusca dredged by the U. S. Fish 



Commission steamer Fish ITaivk in 1880, 1881, and 1882, with their range in 

 depth. (From Report 1883, pp. 701-727.) 



101. Eisen, Gustav. Oligochietoiogical researches. (From Report 1883, pp. 879- 



964.) 



102. Seal, William P. The Aqua-vivarium as an aid to biological research. (From 



Report 1883, pp. 965-969.) 



103. Benecke, B. Utilizing water by fish-culture. (From Report 1883, pp. 1101- 



1142.) 



104. Ryder, John A. An exposition of the priciples of a rational system of oyster 



culture, together with an account of a new and practical method of obtaiuing 

 oyster spat on a scale of commercial importance. (From Report 1885, pp. 

 381-423.) 



105. Smith, Sidney I. Report on the Decapod Crustacea of the Albatross dredgings 



off the east coast of the United States during the summer and autumn of 1884. 

 (From Report 1885, pp. 605-705.) 



