LX REPORT OF COMMISSIONEE OF FISH AND FISHEEIES. 



Part VI. — A Eeview of the Fisli Trade of cities of the United States having a popula- 

 tion of more than 10,000 in 1880. (Prepared by C. W. Smiley.) 

 VII. — Statistics of Importation and Exportation of Fishery Products from 1730 

 to 1880. 

 VIII. — List of ,the Fishing Vessels of the United States in 1880, giving tonnage, 

 value, number of crew, name of owner, branches of fisheries engaged in, 

 together with other important details. 

 IX. — Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska. By Henry W. Elliott. (Already 



in type; 171 pages. 4to.) 

 X. — Monograph of the Oyster Fisheries. By Ernest IngersoU. (Already in 

 type ; 251 pages.) 



This series includes all compilations from circulars, and the results of 

 the work performed by clerks detailed from the Census Office, together 

 with much derived from the archives of the Fish Cofnmission. 



The first three sections are mainly made up from the material collected 

 by the special agents in the field, and the form is as nearly as possible 

 that in which it was origin ally collected; much, however, has been added 

 from the archives of the Commission. 



By the plan just detailed the statistical matter gathered by the joint 

 eftbrts of the two organizations is assigned to the Census, together with 

 a sufficient amount of descriptive and explanatory text to make the 

 statistics fully intelligible, while the descrijitive, historical, and nat- 

 ural history papers are taken by the Fish Commission, these being en- 

 riched by a sufficient amoiint of statistical detail to render them as use- 

 ful as possible for the class of readers and students for whom they are 

 intended. 



The statistical results of the investigations have already been pub- 

 lished in a preliminary way. A series of special statistical tables ap- 

 peared in the bulletins of the Census Office, as follows : 



(1) Census Bulletin No. 176. — [Preliminary report upon the Pacific States and Terri- 



tories] prepared by Mr. Goode from returns of Special Agents Jordan, 

 Swan, and Beau. Dated May 24, 1884. 4to. pp.6 (-f 2). 



(2) Census Bulletin No. 261. — Statistics of the Fisheries of the Great Lakes. Pre- 



pared by Mr. Frederick W. True from notes of Special Agent Kumlien. 

 Dated September 1, 1881. 4to. pp. 8. 



(3) Census Bulletin No. 278. — Statistics of the Fisheries of Maine. Prepared by Mr. 



E. E. Earll from his notes and those of Mr. C. G. Atkins. Dated No- 

 vember 22, 1881. 4to. pp. 47C-fl). 



(4) Census Bulletin No. 281. — Statistics of the Fisheries of Virginia. Prepared by 



Col. Marshall McDonald. Dated December 1, 1881, 4to. pp. 8. 



(5) Census Bulletin No. 291.— Statistics of the Fisheries of New Hampshire, Ehodo' 



Island, and Connecticut. Prepared by Mr. A. Howard Clark. Dated: 

 April 5, 1882. 4to. pp. 7 (-f 1). 



(6) Census Bulletin No. 295. — Statistics of the Fisheries of Massachusetts. Prepared; 



by Mr. A. Howard Clark from returns of Special Agents Wilcox, Clark,. 

 True, Collins, and Atwood. Dated March 1, 1882. 4to. pp. 35 (+ 1). 



(7) Census Bulletin No. 297.— Commercial Fisheries of the Middle States. Prepared: 



by Mr. E. E. Earll and Col. M. McDonald. Dated June 5, 1882. 4to. 

 pp. 14. (This bulletin includes statistics of No. 4. C. B. No. 281.) 



