REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LVII 



C. — Fish Culture. 



This appendix contains a single paper by Messrs. Bettoni and Vin- 

 ciguerra, of Italy, upon the fish-cultural establishments of Central 

 Europe. 



D.— Reports of Vessels and Stations. 



This appendix consists of twenty-two reports, covering the principal 

 field operations of the Commission during the current year. They relate 

 to the steamers Albatross, Fish Hatch, and Halcyon ; the schooner 

 Orampus, and the fish-cultural stations at Bucksport and Grand Lake 

 Stream, Me. ; Wood's Holl, Mass. ; Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; Battery 

 Island, Saint Jerome, and Fort Washington, Md. ; Washington, D. 0.: 

 Wytheville, Va. ; Northville and Alpena, Mich.; McCloud River, Cal. 



E. — Miscellaneous. 



The first paper in this appendix is a compilation, by Mr. Sanderson 

 Smith, of the data necessary for locating and defining all the dredging 

 stations made in the North Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to the coasts of 

 North America, by the vessels of the Fish Commission, the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, and the various expeditions sent out by European 

 governments. It is accompanied by several charts, showing the posi- 

 tions of the dredging stations. Following it are translations of two 

 papers, one from the Russian, by Professor Kostytscheff, on the chem- 

 ical composition of fish products, the other from the French, by Dr. 

 Manriac, on cases of poisoning produced by spoiled codfish, and a com- 

 pilation of the Norwegian fishery statistics for 1885. 



