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COURTESIES. 



The Commission is indebted to Hon. George M. Bowers, Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, Washington, D. C, for blueprints of the 

 Putrin Bay Station, Lake Erie, showing the pump and water 

 supply system of that great Federal hatchery. He has also fur- 

 nished plans of the U. S. Hatchery at Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. 



The Pennsylvania Fish Commission, through Commissioner N. 

 R. Buller, has presented 1,800,000 shad fry for planting in the 

 Hudson river from our Linlithgo station. 



The New York Aquarium has continued to transfer to the 

 State fry and fingerlings of various kinds of fish which have been 

 developed from eggs in that institution, and the fish thus secured 

 have been planted in public waters. 



The Southside Sportsmen's Club of Long Island, through its 

 president, Mr. George P. Slade, has again permitted employees of 

 the Commission to collect eggs of brook trout in ponds of the 

 club. The eggs obtained from this source were among the best 

 developed in our hatcheries. 



To Mr. S. D. Coykendall, president of the Cornell Steamboat 

 Company, the Commission is indebted for the privilege of taking 

 brook trout eggs in Alder Lake for the use of the hatcheries at 

 Linlithgo and Margaretville. 



Mr. E. C. Brown, of Copake, N. Y., permitted Foreman Rhines 

 to collect eggs of yellow perch in his private waters for develop- 

 ment at the Linlithgo station. 



The Commission is very greatly aided in its work of stocking 

 the public waters by the railroad companies which provide free 

 transportation for its messengers and cans of fish. This liberal 

 policy increases greatly the facilities of the Commission for in- 

 creasing the supply of food and game fish for the people. • 



A pair of tullibees from Oneida Lake was presented to the 

 IT. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. Collections of fishes 

 were made at Constantia for Professor W. M. Smallwood, of 

 Syracuse University. 



The Commission made an unusually fine display of live fish 

 from various parts of the State at the Sportsmen's Show in New 

 York city in March, 1912. Notwithstanding the severity of the 



