24 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Notes on the foreign fishery trade and local fisheries of Porto Rico, by W. A. Wil- 

 cox. Report for 1899, pp. 1-84. 



Check-list of the fishes of Florida, by B. W. Evermann and W. C. Kendall. Report 

 for 1899. pp. 85-103. 



Statistics of the fisheries of the Gulf States, Division of Statistics, C. H. Town- 

 send, assistant in charge. Report for 1899, pp. 10")-169. 



Statistics of the fisheries of the South Atlantic States, Division of Statistics, C. H. 

 Townsend, assistant in charge. Report for 1899, pp. 171-227. 



An inquirj^ into the feasibility of introducing useful marine animals into the 

 waters of Great Salt Lake,* by H. F. Moore. Report for 1899, pp. 229-250. 



A review of the fisheries in the contiguous waters of the State of Washington and 

 British Columbia, by Richard Rathbun. Report for 1899, pp. 251-350. 



Experiments in photography of live fishes, by R. W. Shufeldt. Bulletin for 1899, 

 pp. 1-5. 



Notes on the tide-pool fishes of California, with a description of four new species, 

 by Arthur White Greeley. Bulletin for 1899. pp. 7-20. 



The svnaptas of the New England coast, by Hubert Lyman Clark. Bulletin for 

 1899, pp. 21-31. 



Descriptions of new genera and species of fishes from Porto Rico, by B. W. Ever- 

 mann and M. C. Marsh. Report for 1899, pp. 351-362. 



There have been distributed during the year 1,429 bound and 12,394 

 pamphlet copies of the publications of the Commission. 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., has 

 published the following additional papers based on the investigations 

 of the steamer Albatross in 1891: 



Bulletin, vol. xxxv, No. 1, xxvii. Preliminary account of Planktonemertes 

 agassizii, a new pelagic nemertean, by W. McM. Woodworth. 



Memoirs, vol. xxiii. No. 2, xxv. The Ophiuridaj, by C. F. Lutken and Th. Mor- 

 tensen. 



Memoirs, vol. xxiv, No. xxvi. The Fishes, by S. Garman. 



Appropriations were made by Congress for conducting the opera- 

 tions of the Commission for the year ending June 30, 1900, as follows: 



Salaries _. $218,000 



Miscellaneous expenses: 



Administration 10, 000 



Propagation of food-fishes .. 15o' 000 



Inquiry respecting food-fishes 15^ 000 



Statistical inquiry 5' OOO 



Maintenance of vessels __ 30^ 500 



For improvement of stations at— 



Leadville, Coio 4^ 000 



Woods Hole, Mass. ._. 5^000 



For construction of a wharf at Gloucester ( Mass. ) station ]...'."'..'''. 2, 500 



For purchase of a steam 'aunch for use at New England stations 7, 000 



For contmuing investigations regarding lobsters and clams 7, 500 



A report of the expenditure of these amounts will be made to Con- 

 gress, in accordance with law. 



George M. Bowers, Commissioner. 



