REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XXXIII 



The fresh- water pearls and pearl fisheries of the United States, by George F, Kunz 

 Bulletin for 1897, pp. 373-426, plates i-xxii. 



Report of the Commissioner for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, including the 

 reports on divisions of fish-culture, scientific inquiry, and fisheries, by George M. 

 Bowers. Report for 1898, pp. i-CLXXXi, plates i-xxi. 



Report on mackerel investigations in 1897, by J. P. Moore. Report for 1898, pp. 1-22. 



Report on fishes obtained by the steamer Albatross in the vicinity of Santa Catalina 

 Island and Monterey Bay, by Charles H. Gilbert. Report for 1898, pp. 23-29, 

 plates 1 and 2. 



Notes on the extent and condition of the alewife fisheries of the United States in 1896, 

 by Hugh M. Smith. Report for 1898, pp. 31-43. 



Report on the oyster-beds of Louisiana, by H. F. Moore. Report for 1898, pp. 45-100, 

 plate 3. 



The shad fisheries of the Atlantic coast of the United States, by Charles H. Steven- 

 son. Report for 1898, pp. 101-269. 



List of fishes collected at the Revillagigedo Archipelago and neighboring islands, by 

 David S. Jordan and R. C. McGregor, Report for 1898, pp. 273-284, plates 4-7. 



Report on investigations by the U. S. Fish Commission in Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 and Texas in 1897, by B. W. Evermanu. Report for 1898, pp. 285-310, pis. 8-36. 



List of publications of the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries available for dis- 

 tribution on March 1, 1899. Report for 1898, pp. 311-327. 



Report upon exhibit of the U. S. Fish Commission at the Tennessee Centennial Expo- 

 sition in 1897, by W. de C. Ravenel. Report for 1898, pp. 329-339, pi. 37. 



The coutiuued public interest in the work of the Commission is shown 

 by the requests received for its publications, 3,511 bound and 8,513 

 pamphlet copies of wliich have been distributed. 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology published in August, 1898, a 



paper relative to tbe investigations conducted by the Fish Commission 



steamer Albatross in 1891, entitled: 



Preliminary Report on BraneJiiocerianihiis urceolus, a new type of Actinian, by E. S. 

 Mark. Bull. Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. xxxii, pp. 148-154, 3 plates. 



The expenditure of the appropriations for the last fiscal year was 

 reported to Congress December 6, 1898 (House Doc. No. 40, Fifty-fifth 

 Congress, third session). 



Appropriations for conducting the operations of the Commission for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, were made by Congress as follows: 



Salaries $197,900 



Miscellaneous expenses: 



Administration 9, 000 



Propagation of food-fishes 140, 000 



Maintenance of vessels 30, 500 



Inquiry respecting food-fishes 10, 800 



Statistical inquiry 5, 000 



For new boilers and general repairs to the steamer Albatross 26, 000 



For establishment offish-cultural stations in — 



North Carolina 15, 000 



Georgia 15,000 



State of Washington 10,000 



For completion of stations now under construction at — 



Erwin, Tenu 6, 018 



Spcarfish, S. Dak 5,000 



Manchester, Iowa 6, 000 



Bozeman. Mont 1, 500 



Nashua, N.H 7,000 



For repair and improvement of station at Duluth, Minn 1, 000 



For construction of fish-distribution car 8, 000 



A report showing in detail the expenditure of these amounts will be 

 made to Congress in accordance with law. 



George M. Bowers, 



Commissioner. 



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