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Tlie Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians,* by 
Mr. W. H. Jackson, contains a good deal of information about the Indian 
tribes, which will be found interesting, even without the admirable series 
of photographs to which it is intended as a guide. The last publication of 
the Survey of the Territories that we have received is a fourth edition of the 
Lists of Elevationsf in the country surveyed by Dr. Hayden and his staff. 
These lists were first published in 1872, when they formed a 12mo 
pamphlet of 31 pages ; the additional observations since made have brought 
the work up to 160 closely-printed 8vo pages of tables of elevations, 
illustrated with a large contour map. 
A most valuable volume is the Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries X 
for the years 1873-5, which contains not only the Commissioner’s formal 
statement of the results of operations carried on under the auspices of the 
Commission during those years, but also a series of appendices giving the 
most varied information from all sources upon subjects connected with Fish 
and Fisheries. From these documents we learn that the system of artificial 
propagation is being adopted with great energy by the Americans, especially 
in the case of the Atlantic salmon, the Californian salmon, and the shad ; 
and that the eggs and young fry of these fishes have been transported 
into new waters with a considerable amount of success. With regard to 
the shad, the Commission even attempted to send a supply of the newly- 
hatched fry from America to Germany, with a view to the introduction of 
the American species into European rivers, in return for a large consign- 
ment of young Rhine salmon sent by the German Government to America. 
The experiment was unsuccessful, but the gentlemen sent in charge of the 
fish think that it would not be difficult to transport the shad to Europe 
by placing the eggs in an ingenious hatching apparatus which they 
have invented, and which is described and figured in the present 
volume. In the appendices, besides elaborate reports upon the steps 
taken by the agents of the Commission for carrying out its objects in various 
parts of the United States, we find translations of important memoirs on 
food fishes and their propagation, and on fisheries, which have been published 
during the last few years in different European countries ; the most important 
being those from Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian sources, which may be 
regarded as peculiarly inaccessible to most English readers. There is also a 
translation (from the French) of a valuable Russian report on Fisheries and 
Seal-Hunting in the White Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Caspian. The 
book, in fact, contains an immense mass of information of the highest value 
to the ichthyologist. There is also a brief report upon the results of 
dredgings made in 1873 in the Gulf of Maine, and a list of the Marine Algae 
of the United States, both arising out of the investigations of the marine 
• “ Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians.” 
By W. H. Jackson, Photographer to the Survey. Miscel. Publ., No. 9. 
8vo. Washington. 1877. 
t “ Lists of Elevations, principally in that portion of the United States 
West of the Mississippi River.” By Henry Gannett. Fourth edition. 
Miscel. Publ., No. 1. 8vo. Washington. 1877. 
t “ United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. Report 
of the Commission for 1873-4 and 1874-5.” 8vo. Washington. 1876. 
