Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28


MIR TITCoMB. the chief of the division
IVA of fish culture. is frequent contrib
utor to the advancement of knowledge on
that subject, and one Of his recent essays
deals with the kind of aquatic plants that
should be grown in an artificial fish pond.
There is much more in fish propagation
than simply Matching the eggs and distrb-
uting them, and there have been many in
stances of unsuccessful planting OF young
fishes either because they have been
distributed among their natural enemies
or where they could not get the proper
food. recent innovation at the bureau
of fisheries was the establishment of a
card index system for the purpose OF
preserving all obtanable data concern
ing plants of fishes in the many thousand
ponds, lakes and streams which the
bureau has stocked, by which il will be
easy to tell what species will flourish and
what will not in a particular locality.
A former chief of the division of fish
culture is William de Chastignier RAJ
venel. who has been administrative as
sstant al the National Museum since
1902. Mr.. Ravenel was in charge of fish
culture from 1890 to 1902 \ native of
Pinesville. s. c., he entered the fish COM
mission in 1882, when he was twenty-four
years old. He was special agent at tile
worlds Columbian exposition i'm 1S!e. and
represented the commission on govern
ment boards of management at the ex-
positions in Atlanta. Nashville, Omaha,
Buffalo and St. Louis.
DIR. Barton w. Eyermann in charge of
the division of scientific inquiry, has a
wide acquaintance in Washington as
vice president of the board of education
and Is famous throughout the country
for his contributions to ichthy illogical lit
erature Besides collaborating with Prof
David Starr Jordan in the Handbook
on American Food and Game Fishes he
has written many other books and has
been a special lecturer at colleges He
collaborated with NJ C. Marsh in CLASH
flying the fishes Of Porto Rico after The
exploration trip of the Fish Hawk in
1880 finding 291 species, twelve of
which are new to science. The results
of this investigation were published In
one of the handsomest books ever issued
by the government containing bright
colored pictures of fishes. of which it
has been said that the rainbow is dull
in comparison. DIR. Evermann taught at
becoming connected with the fish commits
sion in 1888. He was United States fur
seal commissioner in 1892.
TN the course of his duties as chief of
! the division of statistics and methods,
Alvir B. Alexander goes each summer to
the Newfoundland fisheries. where he
gives instructions concerning the modus
vivendi that is arranged between the State
Department and England at regular in
tervals. Mr.. Alexander succeeded as chief
of the division of statistics Charles H.
Townsend. who left to become fishery ex-
pert of the RuSso-American arbitration at
The Hague and who later became director
of the New York Aquarium. Mr.. Town
send. as a fish commission employee, was
one of the pioneers in the propagation Of
salmon in California. He was naturalist
on the Corwin's arctic exploration Of 1885
and was resident naturalist of the Alba
tross during many of its deep-sea investi-
cations He was also a member of the
Boring sea fur commission.
The bureaus oyster expert is Henry F.
Moore. whose fame is second only to that
OF the late DR.. Brooks of Baltimore