LVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



thirty-three years, Professor Baird having made a careful investigation 

 of the same region in 1854. The latter obtained sixty-seven species, of 

 which eleven were not found by Dr. Beau, who succeeded, however, in 

 securing ninety species, thirty-five of which were additions to the list 

 published by Professor Baird. The total number of species now re- 

 corded from this region is one hundred and one. 



The Wood's Holl laboratory was occupied as usual during the sum- 

 mer of 1887 in the interest of scientific inquiry. Professor Baird was 

 present up to the time of his death, August 19, but as he was seldom able 

 to give personal attention to the conduct of the work, his duties were 

 assumed by the Acting Commissioner, Mr. T. B. Fergusou. The biolog- 

 ical laboratory was in charge of Prof. A. E. Verrill, of Yale College, 

 assisted by Mr. Richard Rathbun. Those in attendance during the 

 summer were as follows : Prof. S. I. Smith, of Yale College ; Prof. Leslie 

 A. Lee, of Bowdoin College; Mr. Sanderson Smith, of New York; Prof. 

 Edwin Linton, of Washington and Jefferson College, assisted in his 

 work by Mrs. Linton as artist ; Prof. B. F. Koons, of the Storrs Agri- 

 cultural School; Mr. J. H. Blake, of Cambridge, as artist; Mr. Thomas 

 Lee, and Mr. Peter Parker, of Washington; Miss K. J. Bush, and Miss 

 C. E. Bush, assistants of Professor Verrill; and Mr. A. H. Baldwin and 

 Miss M. J. Rathbun, assistants in the U. S. National Museum. Dr. J. 

 H. Kidder was in charge of the physical and chemical laboratory, and 

 Mr. William P. Seal of the aquaria. Tables in the laboratory were as- 

 signed to Mr. S. Watase, of Johns Hopkins University, and Mr. Miyabe, 

 of Harvard University. Dr. Osier, of Philadelphia, was also present for 

 a short time. Mr. V. N. Edwards, who is permanently employed at the 

 station, acted as general field assistant. The attention of the party was 

 divided between the care and study of the collections brought in by 

 the steamers Fish Haivh and Albatross and the investigation of the local 

 fauna and fisheries. As above explained, the Albatross made only one 

 trip in connection with the Wood's Holl Station, but the short cruises 

 of the Fish Hawk in the neighboring waters furnished considerable ma- 

 terial. Seines were constantly in use along the shores of Vineyard 

 Sound and Buzzard's Bay, and many fishes were secured in the fish 

 traps of the vicinity. 



The taking of temperature observations at the principal light houses, 

 light-ships, and signal stations along both seacoasts of the United 

 States and on many of the interior lakes and rivers, as described in 

 previous reports, was continued during the entire year, through the 

 courtesy of the Light-House Board and the Chief Signal Officer. The 

 preparation of reports covering the investigations of the steamers and 

 field parties of the Commission has been intrusted to the same person- 

 nel as last year. Among the collaborators in this department may be 

 mentioned Prof. A. E. Verrill, and Prof. S. I. Smith, of Yale College; 

 President David S. Jordan, of the University of Indiana ; Dr. T. H. 

 Bean, Dr. J. H. Kidder, and Mr. Richard Rathbun, of Washington; 



