EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XCIII 



The same author presents the statistics of the United States imports and 

 exports of fishery products for the current year. These are based upon 

 information furnished by the Bureau of Statistics. A pajjer on the fish- 

 eries of Great Britain and the Fisheries Exhibition of 1883, by E. W. 

 Duff, M. P., is presented in abstract as somewhat explanatory of the 

 great International Fisheries Exhibition. Of the two i^apers relating 

 to the whale fisheries, the first is a statistical review of the past two 

 years, compiled by Mr. Smiley, and the second a translation from the 

 German of a description of Svend Foyn's whaling establishment. A 

 translation from the Swedish of Prof. A. Y. Ljungman upon the great 

 herring-fisheries is of interest. It is followed by two papers from the 

 Danish upon the Norwegian fisheries of 1883, and the Iceland cod-fish- 

 eries of 1883. A paper upon the fisheries of India by Francis Day, 

 formerly inspector-general of fisheries in India, gives a very comprehen- 

 sive view of that industry. The last paper is by Rudolph Lundberg, 

 upon the Swedish eel-fisheries and the apparatus used therein. 



C— Economic Research. 



Prof. W. O. Atwater has presented herein his second contribution to 

 our knowledge of the chemical composition and nutritive values of 

 American food-fishes and invertebrates, a former ijaper on the same 

 subject having been furnished by him for the Report of 1880. 



D. — Natural History and Biological Research. 



Of the six papers in this section the first two relate to the explora- 

 tions made by the Commission along the Gulf Stream, Professor Ver- 

 rill presenting the general results of the Albatross explorations in 1883, 

 and Miss Bush giving a list of the deep-water mollusca dredged by 

 the Fish Hawk in 1880, 1881, and 1882. In a paper by A. Y. Ljung- 

 man, translated from the Swedish, will be found some valuable notes 

 upon the natural history of the herring and the management of the 

 herring fisheries daring the past ten years. A paper by R. W. Shu- 

 feldt, M. D., upon the osteology of Amia calva is illustrated by four- 

 teen plates; and one by Gustav Eisen, entitled " Oligochsetological 

 Researches," is illustrated by ten plates. The last paper is by William 

 P. Seal, upon the aqua- vivaria as an aid to biological research, and is 

 illustrated by three plates. 



E. — Propagation of Food-Fishes. 



The sixteen papers in this section relate mostly to the propagating 

 operations of the Fish Commission, and consist of reports from the 

 persons charged with the work of j)ropagation or distribution. These 

 are upon the. fish eggs sent to foreign countries, by Mr. Mather; the 

 operations at iSTorthville and Alpena Stations, by Mr. Clark; the salmon- 

 and trout-breeding work on the McCloud River, by Mr. Stone ; the 

 Penobscot and Schoodic salmon work in Maine, by Mr. Atkins ; the 



