LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



United States National Museum, 



Washington, July 18, 1882. 

 SiK : I have the honor to transmit herewith, for approval and for publication, Section III of a 

 general work upon The Fisheries and Fishbet Industries of the United States, consisting 

 of a description of the fishing grounds of North America, prepared by Capt. J. W. Collins, Mr. 

 Eichard Eathbun, Mr. Silas Stearns, Prof. D. S, Jordan, Dr. T. H. Bean, Mr. F. W. True, and Mr. 

 Ludwig Kumlien. The work is edited by Mr. Eichard Eathbun. It is the only report of the 

 kind ever»written. It describes the locations, the characteristics, and the productiveness of the 

 numerous grounds resorted to by the fishermen of the United States, extending from Greenland to 

 Mexico, from Lower California to Alaska, and including the fishing grounds of the Great Lakes. 

 The accompanying charts illustrate the fishing grounds and the surface ocean temperatures of the 

 eastern coast of North America. 



I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



G. BEOWN GOODE. 

 Prof. Spenoee F. Baied, 



United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



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