240 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES.. 



Results of work. 



1. Keports of the Commission. 



(UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES. PART III.) 



XXXIII. SECTION ON THE ORGANS OF REPRODUCTION AND THE 



FECUNDATION OF FISHES AND ESPECIALLY OF EELS. 



By Dr. Syvski. pp. 719-734. 



XXXIV. THE FOOD AND MODE OF LIVING OF THE SALMON, THE: 



TROUT, AND THE SHAD. By D. Barfnrth. pp. 735-7f,8. 



UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES. PART IV. REPORT 



OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR 1875-1876. 'A. INQUIRY INTO THE DECREASE 



OF THE FOOD-FISHES. B. THE PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES IN THE. 



WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington: Government Printing- 

 office. 1878. 8vo., pp. ix, 50, 1029, plates vi (Hist, of whale fishery). 

 I. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 

 A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, p. 1. 



B. INQUIRY INTO THE DECREASE OF FOOD-FISHES. 



2. INVESTIGATIONS AND OPERATIONS OF 1875. p. 4. 



3. INVESTIGATIONS AND OPERATIONS OF 1876. p. 7. 



C. THE PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES. 



4. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS, p. 8. 



5. ACTUAL WORK OF PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES IN 1875- 



AND 1876. p. 20. 

 The shad. p. 20. 

 The C alif orni a salm on . p . 21 . 

 The Atlantic salmon, p. 25. 

 The land-locked salmon, p. 25. 

 The white-fish, p. 26. 

 The carp. p. 27. 

 D. TABLES. 



TABLE 7. HATCHING AND DISTRIBUTION OF FISH BY THE 

 UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION FROM THE 

 BEGINNING OF ITS WORK IN 1872 TO THE SUM- 

 MER OF 1876. p. 28. 



II. APPENDIX TO REPORT OF COMMISSIONER. 

 APPENDIX A. THE SEA FISHERIES. 



I. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY FROM: 



ITS EARLIEST INCEPTION TO THE YEAR 1876. 



By Alexander Starbuck. 

 APPENDIX B. THE INLAND FISHERIES. 



II. FISHERIES OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY. By E. \V. 

 Nelson, p. 783. 



III. THE SALMON FISHERIES OF THE COLUMBIA RlVER. 



By Livingston Stone, p. 801. 



IV. NOTES ON SOME FISHERIES OF THE DELAWARE 



RIVER. By Dr. C. C. Abbott, p. 825. 

 V. METHOD OF PURIFYING THE RESIDUUM OF GAS- 

 WORKS BEFORE ALLOWING IT TO PASS OFF INTO 

 THE WATER. By J. R. Shot well. p. 847. 

 VI. TABLES OF TEMPERATURES OF AIR AND WATER AT 

 SUNDRY STATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SlGNAL 

 OFFICE, FROM MARCH, 1874, TO FEBRUARY, 1875. 

 AND FROM MARCH, 1876, TO FEBRUARY. 1877,. 

 INCLUSIVE, p. 851. 



