130 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES, 
Permanent temperature stations.—The permanent stations at which 
temperature observations of the air and water have been taken daily 
for a greater or less period during the past two years, through the cour- 
tesy mainly of the Light-House Board, the Signal Service, and the 
Southern Pacific Company, are as follows: 
Temperature stations on the Atlantic Coast. 
Stations of the Light-House Service: 
Coast of Maine: Petit Manan Island, Mount Desert Rock, Matinicus Rock, Se- 
guin Island, Boon Island. 
Coast of Massachusetts: Race Point, Pollock Rip light-ship, Nantucket New 
South Shoal light-ship, Cross Rip light-ship, Vineyard Sound light-ship. 
Coast of Rhode Island: Brenton Reef light-ship, Block Island southeast light. 
Long Island Sound: Bartlett Reef light-ship, Stratford Shoals light-ship. 
Coast of New York: Sandy Hook light-ship. 
Coast of New Jersey: Absecon Inlet, Five-Fathom Bank light-ship. 
Delaware Bay: Fourteen-Foot Bank light-ship. 
Coast of Virginia: Winter Quarter Shoal light-ship. 
Chesapeake Bay: Point Lookout, Windmill Point, Stingray Point, Wolf Trap 
Bar, York Spit. 
Coast of North Carolina: Bodys Island, Cape Lookout, Frying Pan Shoal light- 
ship. . 
Coast of South Carolina: Rattlesnake Shoal light-ship, Martin’s Industry Shoal 
light-ship. 
Coast of Florida: Fowey Rocks, Carysfort Reef, Dry Tortugas. 
Stations of the Signal Service: 
Kastport, Me. 
Boston and Nantucket, Mass. 
New York City, N. Y. 
Charleston, 8. C. 
Key West, Cedar Keys, and Pensacola, Fla. 
Stations of the Fish Commission: 
Gloucester and Woods Holl, Mass. 
Fort Washington, Potomac River, Maryland. 
Washington, D. C, 
Temperature stations on the Pacific cocst and slope. 
Station of the Signal Service: 
Portland, Oregon. 
Stations of the Southern Pacific Company : 
Sacramento River, at Tehama and Yolo Bridges and King’s Landing, California. 
leather River, at railroad crossing, California, 
American River, at railroad crossing, California. 
Mokelumne River, at Lodi, Cal. 
Tuolumne River, at Modesto, Cal. 
San Joaquin Riyer, at the upper and lower railroad crossings, California. 
King River, at Kingsbury, Cal. 
Colorado River, at Yuma, Ariz. 
No serious breaks have occurred in the records of any of the light- 
house stations above enumerated, and the Southern Pacific Company 
has added several new stations to those reported upon in 1889, but, 
