66 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Report on the salmon and salmon rivers of Alaska, with notes on the conditions, 
methods, and needs of the salmon fisheries. By Tarleton H. Bean. (Bulletin, 1889, 
pp. 165 to 208.) ; . 
The fishing-grounds of Bristol Bay, Alaska: A preliminary report upon the inves- 
tigations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross during the summer of 1890. 
By Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. 8. Navy. (Bulletin, 1889, pp. 279 to 288.) 
Notes on an improved form of oyster-tongs. By HughM. Smith. (Bulletin, 1889, 
pp. 161 to 163.) 
A contribution to the life-history of Dibothrium cordiceps Leidy, a parasite infesting 
the trout of Yellowstone Lake. By Edwin Linton, pH. D. (Bulletin, 1889, pp. 337 
to 358.) 
The collections made by the Fish Commission steamer Albatross dur- 
jng the years 1887, 1888, and 1889 will, in accordance with law, be de- 
posited in the U. S. National Museum, under direction of the Smith- 
sonian Institution. The féllowing papers giving the results of the 
study of the collections, were published in the Proceedings of the U.S. 
National Museum under the general title, ‘Scientific Results of Explo- 
rations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross.” They are: 
No. I. Birds collected on the Galapagos Islands in 1888. By Robert Ridgway, 
curator of the department of birds. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 101 to 128.) 
No. IL. Birds collectedon the island of Santa Lucia, West Indies, the Abrolhos 
Islands, Brazil, and at the Straits of Magellan, in 1887-88. By Robert Ridgway, 
curator of the department of birds. (Proc. U. 8. N. M., 1889, pp. 129 to 139.) 
No. III. Report on the batrachians and reptiles collected in 1887-88. By E. D. 
Cope. (Proc. U. 8. N. M., 1889, pp. 141 to 147.) 
No. IV. Descriptions of new species of fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands 
and along the coast of the United States of Colombia, 1887-88. By David Starr 
Jordan and Charles Harvey Bollman. (Proc. U.S. N. M., 1889, pp. 149 to 183.) 
No. V. Annotated catalogue of the insects collected in 1887-88. By L. O. Howard, 
acting curator of the department of insects. (Proc. U.S. N. M., 1889, pp. 185 to 216.) 
No. VI. List of the plants collected in Alaska in 1888. By Dr. George Vasey. 
(Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 217 to 218.) 
No. VII. Preliminary report of the collection of mollusea and brachiopoda obtained 
in 1887-88. By William Healy Dall, a. M., curator of the department of mollusks. 
(Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 219 to 362.) 
No. VIII. Description ofa new cottoid fish from British Columbia. By Tarleton H. 
Bean, ichthyologist, U.S. Fish Commission. (Proc. U.S. N. M., 1889, pp. 641 to 642.) 
No. IX. Catalogue of fishes collected at Port Castries, St. Lucia, by the steamer 
Albatross, November, 1888. By David Starr Jordan. (Proc. U.S. N. M., 1889, pp. 645 
to 652.) 
No. X. On certain mesozoic fossils from the islands of St. Paul and St. Peter, in 
the Straits of Magellan. By Charles A. White. (Proc. U. 8. N. M., 1890, pp. 13, 14.) 
No. XI. New fishes collected off the coast of Alaska and the adjacent region south- 
ward. By Tarleton H. Bean. (Proc. U.S. N. M., 1890, pp. 37 to 45.) 
No. XII. A prefiminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer Albatross on 
the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve 
new genera and ninety-two new species. By Charles H. Gilbert, professor of zoédlogy, 
University of Indiana. (Proc. U.8.N.M., 1890, pp. 49 to 126.) 
No. XIII. Catalogue of skeletons of birds collected at the Abrolhos Islands, Brazil, 
the Straits of Magellan, and the Galapagos Islands, in 1887-88. By Frederic A. 
Lucas, assistant curator of the department of comparative anatomy. (Prov. U.S.N.M., 
1890, pp. 127 to 130.) 
