54 FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 
kansas Commission was organized in 1876, N. H. Fish, J. R. Steelman 
and M. B. Pearce being appointed commissioners. 
XCI. 1876—Establishment of the Kentucky Fish Commdsston.—By fish 
law of Kentucky, approved March 2oth 1876, the Kentucky Commission 
was organized by the appointment of ten commissioners, one from 
each congressional district. Mr. Pack Thomas was the active worker 
and was elected President of the Board. Up to 1880 $11,000 had been 
appropriated for fish culture. [Reports: I. 1876; I., 1878; Il. (second 
biennial), 1879.| 
XCII. 1877—Establishment of the Kansas Ftsh Commdsston.—In 1877 
Mr. D. B. Long was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries for Kansas. 
Up to 1880 $2,000 had been appropriated for fish culture. [Reports: 
(biennial), I., 1878 ; II., 1880.] 
XCIII. 1877—Jntroduction of the Madue Maraena tnto the United 
States—By the courtesy of Mr. R. Eckhardt, of Lubinchen, Germany, 
who presented 1,000 eggs of the Madue Maraena (Coregonus maraena) 
to the U. S. Fisk Commission, this species was introduced into Gard- 
ner’s Lake, Michigan. [Rep. U.S. F. C., IV., p. 16%; V., p. 40*.] 
XCIV. 1877—Artifictal Hatching of the Herring and Detscovery of a 
Method of Retarding their Development—Experiments were success- 
fully carried out by Dr. H. A. Meyer, of Kiel, Germany, in hatching 
and retarding the development of the eggs by cold, and in hatching 
them by Vinal N. Edwards, of the U. S. Fish Commission. [Rep. U. 
S. F.C., V., p. 45*”; VI., p. 629.] These experiments in hatching were 
repeated at the U. S. F. C. station in Gloucester in 1878, by Mr. Frank 
MaClark. (Rep. U.S. FAG, V 1; p.39:] 
XCV. 1877—Establishment of the Clackamas Hatchery —A hatching 
station established by the salmon canners of the Columbia River, and 
carried on under the supervision of Mr. Livingston Stone. [Rep. U. 
Sb ., V4) pp.'22*, 31* 4° This was continued, by the aid"*ot’ the Ur oe. 
Mein. to7o. “Peeples. PC Vile py. 273] 
XCV1. 1877—/ntroduction of Carp into the Untted States —On the 
26th of May, 1877, Mr. Rudolph Hessel, acting for the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission, deposited 227 leather and mirror carp and 118 scale carp in 
the ponds of the Maryland State Hatching House at Baltimore. A 
few carp had some years previously been introduced by Mr. Poppe, of 
Sonoma, Cal., which were utilized for his own private purposes. [Rep. 
eran, Vash. foe 
XCVII. 1877—Establishment of the Government Carp Ponds—The 
Government carp pond on the Monument Lot, Washington, were es- 
tablished in 1877 by the passage of an appropriation by Congress. 
