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have always understood they were popular. The Officers at present 

 are as follows, the Secretary having charge of all correspondence : 

 President, Prof. John Pierce, Providence, R. I., Secretary, Rev. A. 

 B. Hervey, Troy, N. Y.; Managers, R. H. Ward, M. D., also of Troy, 

 and C. M. Vorce, Cleveland, Ohio.— W. H. S. 



Correction. — The list of birds of the District, published in No. n 

 of our last volume, and credited to Mr. Shufeldt, should have been 

 credited to Mr. Jouy, who will furnish us for publication, at an early 

 day, a complete list of all the birds of the District. 



OUR BOOK SHELF. 



Report of the Commissioners oj Maryland to His Excellency, 



the Governor. Jan. ist, 1876. Annapolis, Md. Printed at Adver- 

 tiser office. [8 vo, pp. 208. Illus. xv.] 



A new class of public documents have come into existence within a 

 few years, and are calculated to spread information of a very useful 

 character, and result in benefiting the country and communities in an 

 economical direction. We refer to the reports of commissioners of 

 fisheries, both of the United States and the separate States. A recent 

 one, which in its character is of considerable interest to Washington 

 and surrounding regions, is the report of the Commissioners of Mary- 

 land, Mr T. B. Ferguson of Baltimore, and Mr. P. W. Downes, 

 published by the State in 1876. This report, as compared with 

 others from different States, is a very commendable one. Amongst 

 other things the plan of a model hatching house is described, which is 

 in actual operation at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore. In this building 

 all the later improvements produced in fish culture are on exhibition 

 and in actual operation. The eggs of several species of fish have their 

 place in the different forms of apparatus and the young fish are cared 

 for in nurseries and ponds. 



This establishment, too, has somewhat of an educational character, 

 as the attendants are directed to impart to visitors any instruction they 

 may desire. The novelties of artificial propagation, the ingenuity of 

 different apparatus, and the presence of numerous species of living 

 fishes, both embryo and mature fish, combine to make this establish- 

 ment a very interesting one, both to the visitor and the student. 



Amongst other matters of original enterprise the subject of terrapin 

 culture is discussed. 



The question of fish ways is referred to in a practical manner with 

 relation to the passage of migratory fish in the Potomac River above 



