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On February 14, 1881 Congress authorizes: THE BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 14th day of February, 1881., by joint resolution (H. Res. 372) Joint Congressional Resolution authorizing the public printer to print reports of the United States fish Commissioner upon new discoveries in regard to fish-culture: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Printer be, and he hereby is, instructed to print and stereotype, from time to time, any matter furnished him by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries relative to new observations, discoveries and applications connected with fish-culture and the fisheries, to be capable of being displayed in parts, and the whole to form an annual volume or bulletin not exceeding five hundred pages. The extra edition of said work shall consist of five thousand copies, of which two thousand five hundred shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, one thousand for the use of the Senate, and one thousand five hundred for the use of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. ADVERTISEMENT 1871: United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries,
For the purpose of utilizing and of promptly publishing the large amount of interesting correspondence of the Fish Commission in reference to matters pertaining to fish culture and to the apparatus, methods, and results of the fisheries, Congress, on the 14th day of February, 1881., by joint resolution (H. Res. 372), authorized the publication annually of a Bulletin, a portion of the edition to be distributed signature by signature, and the remainder in bound volumes. The present volume is the first of this series, and contains many announcements which are believed to be of great importance in relation to the subject in question. Spencer F. Baird,
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