. Biology in America. Biology. 350 Biology in America prosojit. Expoditioiis hy several sliii)s of tlie U. S. Navy and Coast ?Survey during tlie latter iialf of the last century- have made valuable additions to our knowledge of the sea, among Avhieh may be mentioned the cruises of the "Blake" in th(> ('ari))beaii Sea and tlie Gulf of Mexico from 1877 to 18SU under the direction of the late Alexander Agassiz, of the ]\Iuseum of Comparative Zoolog;\^ of Harvard. University, and son of the great Swiss-American naturalist. The establishment of the U. S. Fish Connnission in 1871 early
. Biology in America. Biology. 350 Biology in America prosojit. Expoditioiis hy several sliii)s of tlie U. S. Navy and Coast ?Survey during tlie latter iialf of the last century- have made valuable additions to our knowledge of the sea, among Avhieh may be mentioned the cruises of the "Blake" in th(> ('ari))beaii Sea and tlie Gulf of Mexico from 1877 to 18SU under the direction of the late Alexander Agassiz, of the ]\Iuseum of Comparative Zoolog;\^ of Harvard. University, and son of the great Swiss-American naturalist. The establishment of the U. S. Fish Connnission in 1871 early led to marine expeditions conducted under its The '' Albatross '' of the U. S. Bureau op Fisheries. The pioneer American vessel engaged in oceanography. She was in charge of Alexander Agassiz during his cruises on the Pacific and has added much to our knowledge of the fisheries of the Pacific Coast, espe- cially Alaska. After Smith, in Bulletin of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries for 1908. although partly financed by private money. The Commission was at first dependent upon vessels loaned to it by the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, the Navy, and the Coast Survey, but in 1880 it accpiired for its own use the steamer "Fish Hawk," which has since then been used on the Atlantic coast, partly for scientific investigations and partly as a floating fish hatchery; and two years later the "Albatross," which has been mainly employed in scientific and practical investi- gations on the Pacific Ocean, but during the recent war was in naval service on the Atlantic, and is at present temporarily out of commission at Baltimore. Much of the hazard of the fisherman's trade is due to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Young, R. T. (Robert Thompson), b. 1874. Boston, R. G. Badger
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