214 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
From Evois there were distributed in 1905 the following fry: 
Coremonus~lavareinisi. acme heehee 2,200,000 
Dalmmae seilaaeseigss, sentence bs 2 eee 23,000 
Wye GRRE sD Fert ertiet es eee gn aes oat tieee epee fee 10,000 
5 mIdeugan | Mo ape eee ake see. 448 
Se hentamanlas's 23 ite, eeoeaeee see er he oe 10,000 
Bsoxehieiisvns se eee: Se ieee ere 10,900 
Leuciscus nutiluset:a-2:.0s alee Shee 2,000 
From the establishment at Helsingfors there are generally 
distributed some thousands of fry of the Ladoga charr, salmon 
and whitefish. 
The planting of Coregonus albula and lavaretus and of the 
American rainbow trout have given practical results. The rain- 
bow trout is found to thrive well in ponds and in one small lake, 
but the American bass, large and small mouthed, which have 
been introduced and planted in various lakes, have never been 
seen since their liberation. 
Of private fish cultural establishments there are known to be 
three, of which two have been established within the past five 
years. ‘They handle salmo ferio, Coregonus lavaretus and the 
American rainbow trout, but only for their private waters. 
The Finland Fisheries Society, founded in 1891, publishes 
a journal “Fiskeritidskrift for Finland,” arranges fishery exhibi- 
tions, sends out teachers on different fishery topics, ete. 
JAPAN. 
In addition to the account of fish-cultural and fishery matters 
in Japan which appeared in the Transactions of the Society for 
1904, the Bureau of Fisheries has recently published a very able 
and instructive report by Prof. K. Mitsukuri, of the Imperial 
University of Tokyo, on “The Cultivation of Marine and Fresh 
Water Animals in Japan.” It is therefore not incumbent on the 
committee to devote any special attention to Japan at this time. 
Immediately on the conclusion of the peace treaty with Rus- 
sia, the Japanese government took steps to exploit the valuable 
fishery resources of Saghahen Island and the Siberian littoral 
where fishing privileges were secured to the Japanese; and a 
