REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. CXXXIX 



mission. The response to this appeal has been most gratifying, and by 

 the close of the year the catalogue of the library contained nearly 2,000 

 titles. Besides a full set of the Challenger rei)orts and other works from 

 the Washington ofiBce of the Commission, the more valnable donations 

 included a nearly complete set of Bulletins and Memoirs of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology from Mr. Alexander Agassiz, and a complete 

 series of the publications of the Prince of Monaco. During the summer 

 of 1898, several hundred bound volumes, together with files of scientific 

 journals, were loaned from the laboratory of Brown University. The 

 Boston Society of Natural History also loaned works on request. 



Following is a list of the persons who pursued investigations at the 

 laboratory during the year: Frank W. Bancroft, Ph. D., Harvard Uni- 

 versity; H. Ct. Barber, A. B., Harvard University; C. R. Bardeen, 

 M. D,, Johns Hopkins University; John Bailow, A. M., Rhode Island 

 Agricultural College; Edward W. Berger, A. B., Johns Hopkins 

 University; H. C. Bumpus, Ph. D., Brown University; T. J. Burrage, 



A. M., Brown University; Hubert L. Clark, Ph. D., Amherst Col- 

 lege; Wesley R. Coe, Ph. D., Yale University; Ulric Dahlgren, 

 Ph. D., Princeton University; William H. Dudley, Wisconsin State 

 Normal School; Alexander W. Evans, M. D., Yale University; J. 

 W. Galloway, Harvard University; S. P. Goodhart, M. D., Columbia 

 University; F. P. Gorham, A. M., Brown University; Caswell Grave, 



B. S., Johns Hopkins University; L. E. Griffin, Ph. B., Johns Hop- 

 kins University; Robert W. Hall, Ph. B., Harvard University; C. 

 W. Hargitt, Ph. D., Syracuse University; C. Judson Herrick, Ph. D., 

 Denison University; Roswell H. Johnson, Harvard University; J. L. 

 Kellogg, Ph. D., Olivet College; Harry M. Kelly, A. M., Cornell Col 

 lege; Edwin Linton, Ph. D., Washington and Jefferson College; Albert 

 D. Mead, Ph. D., Brown University; A. E. Ortmann, Ph. D., Prince- 

 ton University; George H. Parker, Ph. D., Harvard University; Wil- 

 liam Patten, Ph. D., Dartmouth College; Raymond Pearl, Dartmouth 

 College; C. W. Prentiss, A. M., Harvard University; Herbert W. 

 Rand, A. B., Harvard University; Albert M. Reese, A. B., Johns Hop- 

 kins University; Porter E. Sargent, A.M., Harvard University; G. H. 

 Sherwood, A. B., Brown University; Boris Sidis, Pb. D., Pathological 

 Institute of the ISTew York State Hospitals ; C. F. Silvester, Princeton 

 University; Hugh M. Smith, M. D., U. S. Fish Commission, Washing- 

 ton; Oliver S. Strong, Ph. D., Columbia University; Frederick H. 

 Thompson, jr., A. B., Harvard University; Millet T. Thompson, A. B., 

 Brown University; R. W. Tower, A. M., Brown University; E. E. 

 Tyzzer, A. M., Brown University ; Ira van Gieson, M. D., Pathological 

 Institute of the New York State Hospitals; Herbert E, Walter, North 

 Division High School, Chicago; F. E. Watson, A. M., Brown Univer- 

 sity; Stephen R. Williams, A. M., Harvard University. 



Although the Commission places no restrictions on the problems that 

 are selected for investigation, a very large proportion of the work is 

 of immediate or indirect practical and economic value. Dr. Bumpus 



