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Santa Y€, which carried a car from Saint Louis through Arkansas and 

 Texas and back; the Flint and P^re Marquette, which furnished many 

 free trips for the cars containing whitefish; the Utah Central and vari- 

 ous other companies. 



14. The selection of a plan for a suitable fishway to be erected at the 

 Great Ealls of the Potomac, and the accomplishment of the preliminary 

 surveys therefor. 



15. The laying out of extensive experimental oyster-ponds at Saint 

 Jerome Greek, Md. 



16. The success of Mr. John A. Eyder in the artificial propagation of 

 oysters at Stockton, Md. 



17. The completion of an apron and other improvements at the Havre 

 de Grace station. 



18. The opening of the Cold Spring Harbor station by the New York 

 State commission, and its use by the U. S. Commission. 



19. The survey of the Columbia Eiver and certain tributaries by Mr. 

 Livingston Stone, with the view to finding suitable localities for salmon 

 hatcheries. 



20. The suspension of work at the McCIoud Eiver salmon station, 

 the run of salmon having been seriously intermitted by the blasting nec- 

 essary to the erection of the Northern Pacific Eailroad along the river. 



21. The increased production of whitefish at Northville and Alpena, 

 Mich., fully 100,000,000 eggs having been taken. 



22. The introduction of whitefish into Eagle Lake, Mount Desert 

 Island, Maine. 



23. The concerted action of the State fish commissions directly inter- 

 ested in the fisheries of the Great Lakes and the protection of those 

 fisheries. 



24. The occupation of Fort Washington, on the Potomac, for shad- 

 hatching, permission having been granted by the Secretary of War. 



25. The application of the method of transferring eggs of the shad to 

 a distance, in a moist condition, on trays, it having heretofore been nec- 

 essary to hatch the eggs at the stations and make the transfer of live 

 fish to a distance. 



26. Large run of shad in the Sacramento Eiver, California, resulting 

 from the introduction of young in these waters a few years since by the 

 Fish Commission. 



27. The great increase in productiveness of the inshore cod-fisheries, 

 due to the general use of cod gill-nets which were introduced by the 

 U. S. Commission. 



28. The reappearance in Gloucester Harbor and at some other points 

 of young cod, believed to belong to a school hatched at Gloucester in 

 1878. 



29. Efforts to hatch cod in New York from eggs taken at Fulton 

 Market. 



3Q. The continued activity in the work of propagation and distribu- 

 tion of German carp. 



