XCIV KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



miscellaneous work at the Central Station, by Mr. McDonald ; the shad- 

 hatching operations at Fort Washington, by Lieutenant Babcock ; the 

 shad-hatching at Havre de Grace, by Lieutenant Lowe; the experiments 

 in penning shad, by Mr. Clark; the general work of distribution, by 

 Mr. McDonald; and the hatching of Spanish mackerel, by Lieuten- 

 ant Wood and by Dr. Kite. There are also included three papers 

 upon carp culture, which have been* considered worthy of translation 

 from the German, the first by Prof. B. Benecke, the second by Max 

 von dem Borne, and the third by Adolph Gasch. 



F. — MlSCELLAJSTEOUS. 



In this section will be found a short account of the laying out of oyster 

 ponds at Saint Jerome, by Lieutenant Wood ; suggestions to keepers 

 of life-saving stations and others, relative to the best means of collecting 

 and preserving specimens of whales and porpoises, by F. W. True; and 

 a compilation of statements concerning the fisheries of several different 

 countries, as reported by the United States consuls abroad to the 

 United States Department of State. 



This series of forty papers contains many that are considered of 

 very high value, and is illustrated by more than one hundred and fifty 

 plates. Ten of the longest papers are provided with special indexes, 

 as it is often desirable to issue these in separate pamphlet foxm for dis- 

 tribution to specialists not interested in the contents of the entire vol- 

 ume. 



E.— SUPPLEMENT TO THE EEPOET PEOPER. 



27.— LIST OF LIGHT-HOUSE KEEPERS RENDERING ASSISTANCE. 



The following is a list of the light-houses (with their keepers) at which 

 temperatures and occurrences of ocean fish have been observed during 

 a portion or all of the present year : 



List of light-houses on the Atlantic coast at which ocean temperatures have been taken during 

 the year 1883, together with the number of monthly reports made at each one. 



Petit Manan light-house, Petit Man an Island. 



George L. Upton, Millbridge, Me - 12 



Mount Desert light-house. Mount Desert Rock. 



Thomas Milan, Southwest Harbor, Me 12 



Matinious Rock light-house, Penobscot Bay. 



William G. Grant, Matinicus, Me 12 



Seguin light-house, Seguin Island, Kennebec River. 



Thomas Day, Hunnewell's Point, Me .^.. 12 



Boon Island light-house. 



Alfred J. Leavitt, box 808, Portsmouth, N. H 12 



Minot's Ledge light-house, Cohasset Rocks, Boston Bay. 



Frank F. Martin, Cohasset, Mass , 12 



Race Point light-house. Cape Cod Bay. 



James Cashman, Provincetown, Mass 12 



Pollock Rip light -station, entrance to Vineyard Sound. 



Allen, jr., South Yarmouth, Mass ........ 12 



