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Massachusetts Commissioners on Inland Fisheries. 
1871. Of the smelt ( Osmerus viridescens) . Fifth annual report, January, 1871, p. 11. 
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1874. Smelts ( Osmerus viridescens). Eighth annual report, for the year ending January 1, 
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1875. Smelts ( Osmerus viridescens). Ninth annual report, for the year ending January 1, 
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1877. [Letter from John P. Ordway to the Commissioners.] Eleventh annual report, for the 
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Massachusetts Commissioners on Fisheries and Game. 
1917. Smelt. Fifty-first annual report, for the year 1916 (1917), pp. 35-36. Boston. 
1918. Smelt. Fifty-second annual report, for the year ending November 30, 1917 (1918), 
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1919. Smelt ( Osmerus mordax). Fifty-third annual report, for the year ending November 30, 
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1920. Smelt. Fifty-fourth annual report, for the year ending November 30, 1919 (1920), 
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Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game. 
1920. Smelt. Annual Report, Department of Conservation, for the year ending November 
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1921. Smelt. Annual Report, Department of Conservation, for the year ending November 
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1922. Smelt. Annual Report, Department of Conservation, for the year ending November 
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Mather, Fred. 
1885. Protecting and hatching the smelt. Transactions, American Fisheries Society, four- 
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1886. Smelt hatching. Transactions, American Fisheries Society, fifteenth meeting, 1886, pp. 
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1887. Work at Cold Spring Harbor. Transactions, American Fisheries Society, sixteenth 
annual meeting, 1887, p. 11. New York. 
1889. Report of operations at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, during the season of 1886. 
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1894. Improved method of hatching smelts. Transactions, American Fisheries Society, 
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1899. How about the smelt? Forest and Stream, Vol. LII, March 11, 1899, p. 191. New 
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Mead, John. 
1883. The smelt of Sebago waters. American Angler, Vol. Ill, No. 24, June 16, 1883, p. 369. 
1885. Eels and smelts. American Angler, Vol. VII, No. 18, May 2, 1885, p. 283. 
1887. Fishing for land-locked salmon at Sebago Lake, Me. American Angler, Vol. XI, No. 
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1887. Notes from Maine. American Angler, Vol. XI, No. 23, June 4, 1887, p. 360. New 
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Meek, Alexander. 
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Mitchill, Samuel L. 
1814. Report, in part, of Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D., professor of natural history, etc., on 
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of Osmerus mordax as Atherina mordax.] 
