20 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
For construction and repair of buildings and improvements of water 
supply at— 
Manchester, lowa:22. 220 eo eee ee as gee $7, 000 
Baird, Gales. the Bee i ese 10, 000 
HOncare OF T1Sh Pond S) Mom Te NG sO ee eee 300 
HOE MEPAILS, CO SCHOOMER 1G 77117 1S ee ee ee ee 7, 500 
For purchase of steam launches at— 
Yes Bay, Alaskass 222s] oe SS Se eas See ee eee 8, 000 
Boothbay Harbor, Me=- === 2. ee a ee ee 5, 000 
In accordance with law the expenditures under these several appro- 
priations will be made the subject of a special report. 
RECOMMENDATION. 
NEW BUILDING AND PUBLIC AQUARIUM. 
Attention is again directed to the inadequate and obsolete quarters 
occupied by the Bureau of Fisheries in Washington, with emphasis 
upon the necessity for a new office building containing special labora- 
tory facilities that are now lacking. Much of the work of the Bureau 
in the interests of the fisheries and fish culture requires for its suc- 
cessful accomplishment fresh and salt water tanks in which experi- 
mental investigations may be conducted. The absence of such tanks 
at headquarters has greatly retarded progress and in some cases has 
necessitated the indefinite postponement of important inquiries. 
Tn conjunction with the desired new office building there should be 
maintained a modern aquarium, which would be a place of great 
public interest and educational value and at the same time of practi- 
cal utility to the Bureau. The facilities already possessed by the 
Bureau for stocking and operating such an aquarium would permit 
its maintenance at a trifling cost. Attention is called to references 
to a national aquarium in the report of the Secretary of Commerce 
and Labor for 1903. 
Respectfully, Gro. M. Bowers, 
Commissioner. 
To Hon. Oscar 8. Srravs, 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 
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