ri;i:i AT)|;V NOTK. ix 



tlie archives of the Fish Commission. The first three sections are mainly made up from the 

 material collection by the special agents in tlic liclil, and the form is as nearly as pos>iMe that in 

 which it was originally collected; much, however, has been added from tin; archives of the 

 Couimission. 



I'.v the plan just detailed, the statistical matter gathered by the joint efforts of the two 

 organi/ations is assigned to the (Vnsus, together with a sufficient amount of descriptive and 

 explanatory text to make the statistics fully intelligible, while the descriptive, historical, and 

 natural history papers are taken by the Fish Commission, these being enriched by a sufficient 

 amount of statistical detail to render them as useful as possible for the class of readers and students 

 for whom they are intended. 



The statistical results of the investigation have already been published in a preliminary way. 

 A M-iic> of special statistical tables appeared in the Bulletins of the Census Office, as follows: 



1 1 . ) ( 'KXSUS BULLETIN No. 176. [Preliminary Report upon the Pacific States and Territories] prepared liy Mr. Ooode 

 from returns of Special Agents Jordan, Swan, and Bean. Dated May 24, 1884. 4to. Pp. 6 (+2). 



(2.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. ail. Statistics of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes. Prepared by Mr. Frederick W. Tnie 

 from notes of Special Agent Kiimliuu. Dated September 1, 1881. 4to. Pp. 8. 



(3.) CKXSCS BULLETIN No. 278. Statistics of the Fisheries of Maine. Prepared by Mr. It. E. Earll from his own notes 

 and those of Capt. J. W. Collins and Mr. C. G. Atkins. Dated November 22, 1881. 4to. Pp. 47 (+1). 



(4.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 281. Statistics of the Fisheries of Virginia. Prepared by Colonel Marshall MacDonald. 

 Dated December 1, 1881. 4to. Pp. 8. 



(!.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 295. Statistics of the Fisheries of Massachusetts Prepared by Mr. A. Howard Clark from 

 returns of Special Agents Wilcox, Clark, True, Collins, and At wood. Dated March 1, 1882. 4to. Pp.35 -f 1. 



(('..) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 291. Statistics of the Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Pre- 

 pared by Mr. A. Howard Clark. Dated April 5, 1883. 4to. Pp. 7(+l.) 



(7.) CENSUS BULLETIN No. 297. Commercial Fisheries of the Middle States. Prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll and Colonel 

 M. MacDonald. Dated June 5, 1882. 4to. Pp. 14. 



(8.) CENSUS BUU.ETIN No. 298. Commercial Fisheries of the Southern Atlantic States. Prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll 

 and Colonel M. MacDonald. Dated June 5, 1882. 4to. Pp.18. (This bulletin includes statistics of No. 4 (C. 

 B., No. 281). 

 In all 148 pages, quarto. In addition to these certain special tables have appeared. 



(10.) STATISTICAL TABLE. Statistics of the Fisheries of the United States in 1880. [Prepared by Messrs. Goode and 

 Karll from the reports of special agents.] Printed in Compendium of the Tenth Census, p. 88. Pp. . 

 i;. published in Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. Ill, 1883, pp. 270-71, and in Preliminary 

 Catalogue, International Fisheries Inhibition, January, p. 5. 



(11.) STATISTICAL TABLE. Table showing by States the quantity of Spanish mackerel taken in 1880, and the total 

 catch for the United States. By R. Edward Earll. Report United States Fish Commission. Part VIII, 

 1880, p. 4U>. 



(12.) STATISTICAL SUMMARY. Statistics of the Davis Strait Halibut Fisheries. By Newton P. Scndder. Report 

 United States Fish Commission. Part VIII, pp. 190-192. 



(13.) STATISTICAL SUMMARY. Statistics of the Swordflsh Fishery. By G. Brown Goode. Report United States Fish 

 Commissioners. Part VIII, pp. 361-367. 



(14.) STATISTICAL SUMMARIES. Statistics of the Mackerel Fishery in 1880. By R. Edward Earll. Report United 



States Fish Commission. Part IX, pp. [124]-[W7.] 



[Statistics of the Mackerel Canning Industry.] By R. Edward Earll. Ibid, p. f!31.] 

 Statistics of the Inspection of Mackerel from 1804 to 1880. By A. Howard Clark. 



Ibid, pp. [1G2]-[213.] 



Vessels in the Mackerel Fishery in 1880. Ibid, p. 4ia 

 Catch of Mackerel by Americans in Canadian waters. 1873-'81. Ibid, p. [430.] 



(15.) INTRODUCTION to Section B., U. 8. Catalogue International Fisheries Exhibition, Ixindon. (Collection of Eco- 

 nomic Crustaceans, Worms, Echinoderms, and Sponges.) \\\ l.'i.-liaid Itathluiu. 1'p. [3]-[20.] Crabs, p. [3]: 

 Lobsters, p. [li] : Crayfish, p. [10]: Shrimp ami Prawns, p. [11J: Sponges, p. [18], etc. 



