480 REPORT—1885. 
Special appropriations for the International Fishery Exhibition in 
Berlin, $20,000 ; ditto in London, $50,000. 
Additional assistance given by Congress and not included in the 
above sums :— 
1. Extensive fish-ponds for breeding by the construction of piers in 
the sea at Wood Holl, Mass., the headquarters of the Commissioners (in 
course of construction in 1884); estimated cost, $80,000. Of this sum 
$50,000 has already been voted as part of the Harbour Improvement 
Appropriation. 
2. The pay of the officers and men of the United States navy: who 
work the Fish Commission steamers Albatross and Fish-Hawk, the former 
being chiefly equipped for ocean, and the latter for coast work. In addi- 
tion, the navy has general instructions to give such aid as they may be 
able to the Commission when their ships are in available. waters. 
3. Printing of the annual report of the Commissioner and of the 
Bulletin ! of the United States Fish Commission. 
Fish Commission of the various States of the Union. 
In addition to the assistance given by the Federal Government ‘ to the 
encouragement of fisheries, and to the investigation of the various forms 
of marine life on the coast and rivers of North America,’ thirty-one 
States had in 1882 their own Fish Commissions, subsidised in each case 
by annual appropriations from the State Government. 
The total sum appropriated in this manner in the year 1882 was 
$120,948, and the total amount appropriated since the institution of the 
State Fish Commissions was, in 1882, $1,101,096. 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Hux.ey, Mr. 
ScLtaTER, Mr. Howarp Saunpers, Mr. THiIsELTON DYER, and Pro- 
fessor MosELEy (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of pro- 
moting the establishment of Marine Biological Stations on the 
coast of the United Kingdom. 
TxuE Committee beg leave to report that they have received the sum granted 
(1501.) from the Treasurer of the Association, and have paid it to the 
funds of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, as 
the most direct means of promoting the speedy establishment of a marine 
laboratory in a most favourable situation on the British coast—namely, 
Plymouth. An excellent site for a laboratory has been granted to the 
Marine Biological Association by Government, at Plymouth. A sum of 
8,0001. has been raised by subscriptions and donations, the Government - 
has promised to aid the working of the laboratory by an annual subsidy, 
and there is every prospect of success. It is probable that the building 
of the laboratory will commence in November. 
1 «Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, that the public printer be and he hereby is instructed 
to print and stereotype, from time to time, any matter furnished him by the United . 
States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries relative to new observation, discoveries, 
and applications connected with fish culture and the fisheries, to be capable of being 
distributed in parts, and the whole to form an annual volume or bulletin not exceed- 
ing 500 pages. The extra edition of said work shall consist of 5,000 copies, of which 
2,500 shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, 1,000 for the use of the 
Senate, and 1,500 for the use of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.’ 
