REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



THE WORK OF THE ALBATROSS. 



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 Plate I.— Apparatus for determining the Result of the Fracture of an Incandescent Lamp in 



a Coal-bunker containing Coal-gas 372 



II.— Figures illustrating the Manner of Testing the Iron for the New Boilers (figs. 1 



to 5) 416 



HI. —Figures illustrating the Manner of Testing the Iron for the New Boilers (figs. 



6 and 7) 418 



IV.— Iron Tubes and Carriers for the Tiller Ropes (figs. 8 to 11) 420 



CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF THE GRAMPUS. 



Plate I.— The Grampus under sail 437 



II.— Sheer Plan, Half-breadth Plan, and Body Plan of the Grampus 439 



III.— Interior Arrangement of the Grampus. 443 



IV.— Construction Plans of the Grampus 447 



V.— Forecastle, looking Forward - 448 



VI.— Forehold. looking to Starboard 450 



VII.— Forehold, looking Aft 452 



VIII.— Laboratory, looking For ward.. 454 



IX. — Laboratory, looking toward After-port Side 454 



X. — Cabin, looking Forward 456 



XL— Cabin, looking Aft 456 



XII. — Fig. 1, Cross-section of Steam "Windlass. Fig. 2, Bed-plate of Steam Windlass 458 



XIII. — Fig. 1, Plan of Steam Windlass, looking forward. Fig. 2, Plan of Engines for 



Windlass 458 



XIV.— Sail Plan , 462 



XV.— Diagram of Beam Trawl 470 



XVI.— Trawl-heads, Beam, Mouth of Net, etc., Shows how Bridles are attached 472 



XVII.— Plans of McDonald's Hatching Bucket 478 



XVIII. — View in Laboratory of the Grampus, with McDonald's Hatching Bucket in 



Operation 482 



Figures in Text: 



Fig. 1 — Steering Wheel 451 



2. — Collins's improved Marine Drag 463 



3. — Collins's patent Fog-horn , 464 



4. — Grampus Towing-net 473 



5.— Collins's Egg-pan <. 479 



OPERATIONS OF THE GRAMPUS. 



Plate I.— Chart showing course of the Grampus 491 



II.— Funk Island bearing NNE., 5 miles distant 498 



III.— Funk Island bearing WNW., l\ miles distant 500 



IV. — The Great Auk (Alca impennis) 514 



V. — Newfoundland fishing schooners, the Galloper Zephyr at the wharf 526 



VI. — Plans of schooner Mitchie , 528 



VII. — Fig. 1, sail plan of schooner Mitchie. Fig. 2, sail plan of Toulinguet boat 530 



VIII.— Seine boat .: 532 



IX.— Pinkie boats 534 



X.— Fishing skiffs 538 



XL — Toulinguet fishing boat 540 



XIL— Plan of cod-trap „ 542 



XIII. — Seining cod on Newfoundland coast 544 



XIV. — Curing cod at Newfoundland. Women at work on flake-yard at St. John's 546 



XV.— Curing stages at Newfoundland 548 



XVI.— Sheer plan of Grampus, showing area covered with copper sheathing, etc 550 



REVIEW OF THE LABROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 



Plate I. — Ctenolabrus adspersus Walbaum 624 



II. — Hiatula onitis Linnams. Tautog, Blackflsh 624 



III. — Lachnolaimus maximus Walbaum. Hogfish ; Capitaine 626 



IV.— Trochocopus pulcher Ayres. California Redfish ; Fathead 632 



V. —Halichceres bivittatus Bloch. Slippery Dick ; Doncella (young) 642 



YI.—Halichoere8 bivittatus Bloch. Slippery Dick ; Doncella (adult) 646 



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