SECTION B. 



PROTECTION AND CULTURE. 



I. INVESTIGATION. 



1. METHODS OF THE UMTED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 

 Methods of work. 



Apparatus for collecting specimens. (See under B.) 

 Apparatus for physical research. 

 Appliances for working up results. 



This should include a model of coast laboratory with all its fittings. 



Photographs. 1 



401. Headquarters of the United States Fish Commission, Wood's Holl, 



Matt. 



400. Little Harbor of Wood's Holl, Mass., with headquarters of U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



399. Harbor of Wood's Hole, Mass., from the wharf of the Fish Commis- 

 sion laboratory. 



398. Harbor of Wood's Holl, Mass., with U. S. Fish Commission fleet for 

 1871. 



397. Village of Wood's Holl, Mass., with the Pacific Soluble Guano Com- 

 pany's Works. 



404. Yacht "Mazeppa," employed in the service of the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



403. U. S. steamer "Blue Light" at the wharf of the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion, Wood's Holl, Mass. 



402. Village of Wood's Holl, Mass^Howing Ial>o?at0r$sof U. S. Fish 



Commission. // C r 



Results of work. (& 



1. Reports of the Commission. 



(UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF Fis^ssjaSyfcrfSHSgitfs^PART I. REPORT 



OX THE CONDITION OF THE SF A -FISHERIES OF THE SOUTH COAST OF 



NEW ENGLAND IN 1871 AND 1V72. By Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner. 



With supplementary papers. Washington : Government Printing-Office. 



1873. 8vo, xlvii, 852 pp., 40 pi., with 38 explanatory (to pi. 1-38). 1 



folded map.) 



I. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER (S. F. Baird). pp. vii- 



xlvii.- 



II. GrENERAL PLAN OF INQUIRIES PROSECUTED. (1. MEM- 

 ORANDA OF INQUIRY RELATIVE TO THE FOOD-FISHES 

 OF THE UNITED STATES. 2. QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO 

 THE FOOD-FISHES OF THE UNITED STATES.) pp. 1-6. 



1 The photographs here enumerated were on exhibition. Many others are in the pos- 

 session of the Commission. 



-This portion, with general title-page (pp. i-xlvii), was issued in advance separately. 



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