This is the 4th annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest of the State of new York. Original 1st. It has an inserted paper claiming " compliments of William F. Fox, Supt. State Forests. Printed in 1899 by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. Many Denton color prints in this book. The books lists 106 illustrations including black and white. I have found that there are 2 B&W illustrations missing as well as one page of text. These concern the Tussock mouth and caterpillar. All color prints as well as logging and illustrations are present. Book is otherwise in good condition. 441 pages
Contents list:
Preface, Report of Commissioners, Financial Statement, General Maintenance Account, Hatchery Accounts, Shellfish Department account, Forest preserve account, St. Lawrence Park Reservation, New York State Fair Exhibit, Investigation and examination of Forest Lands in Ulster County, Erection and maintenance of Eel Weirs and traps at Cayuga Lake, Claims arising under former Commission, Firewarden Claims and Rebate Paid Towns, Extermination of Billfish in Black Lake, Construction of Fish Hatchery at Constantia, Acquiring land and water rights at Caledonia Hatchery, Services of counsel in Proceedings, Fines and penalties account, account of Trespass on State lands, Rentals of shellfish lands, Rentals of State Lands, Miscellaneous receipts, Account of Net Fish Licenses, Report of Chief Protector, Report of Superintendent of State Hatcheries, Report of Shellfish Commissioner, The St. Lawrence River Park, Suggestions and recommendations, Distribution of Fish, Report upon the recent Epidemic among Brook Trout on Long Island, Removal of Lampreys from the interior waters of New York, On the DogFish, its habits and breeding, Prosecutions for violations of fish, game and forest laws, Illegal devices seized and destroyed, The common Eel, Figures of fishes in colors, Report of the Superintendent of State Forests, Annual Timber product of Northern New York, Forest Fires 1898, Sanitary benefits of the Adirondack Forest, The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Adirondack Forestry Problems, Insects injurious to Forest Trees, Forestry on Sandy Soils, Working plans for the State Preserve, Bibliography of the Adirondacks
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
Mallard Duck-male, Mallard Duck-female, The Shad, A sad sight, "Jigging" Mackerel, How is this for a pair?, Weakfish, or Squeteague, A day for blinds, The Alarm, An Expert, Ring-necked Pheasant, Large mouth black bass, Upland Plover, Common Mackerel, Holding Hard, Young Brook Trout deseased, Diseased Fish with ulcers, Spores of Lymphosporidium Truttae in the intestine, Section through the testis of a diseased fish, Spores in the Lymph surrounding the liver, Spores in the Lymph surrounding the kidney, Spores in the Lymph surrounding the intestine, Section of muscle bundles of the body wall, A pool in the Raquette River, Adult spawning male and female lake Lampreys, Male and female brook Lampreys on spawning bed, Head and mouth of Lake Lamprey, Heads of Brook Lamprey, Where the Brook Lampreys spawn, Where the Brook lampreys Spawn, Where the Lake Lampreys Spawn, Where the young Lampreys live and the old lampreys die, Life and death, Tracks of birds and mammals where Larva Lampreys Live, Lampreys climbing falls, Twelve Bullheads, Horned Pout, or "Catfish," fatally injured by Lampreys, Eight Bullheads fatally injured by Lampreys, In the shadow of the Pines, Dogfish, mudfish, Bowfin or Grindle, Nests of the Dogfish, Male Amia guarding nest, Nests of the Dogfish, Temptation, The eel spearers, Common Eel, Tomcod or Frostfish, A good string, American Lobster-male, A special performance, American lobster-female, Yellow Perch, Fishing for Weakfish, Rounding a school, Yellowed or barred Perch, Spruce Grouse, Partridge Cover, All ready, In quiet cover, In the forest, In the Spring, Woodland trout Pool, Morning in the camp, Main building of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Library of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Sanitarium Cottage of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Chapel of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, An early start, An ideal battle ground, How a properly lumbered forest looks, Burning brush in the college forest, Fuel wood and Hardwood logs, A belt of timber is left along the highway for Esthetic Reasons, Students and Loggers in camp on the Cornell Forest Reserve, Boarding House at Axton, Nursery at Axton, The office at Axton, Axton in early Spring, Surveyor's camp in College Forest, Group of views of Wawbeek Nursery, Power-spraying outfit in operation, Sugar orchard defoliated by forest tent caterpillars (this one is missing), White Marked Tussock Moth and forest tent caterpillar: Maple Worm- Leopard moth and Maple moth (these are missing), Sugar Maple Borer, Maple tree Pruner and Cottony Maple Tree scale insect, Time and place for Plover, resting, A dune in the process of formation through the action of beach-grass on the Jersey coast, The top of a Dune on the Jersey coast held by a patch of Bayberry, Sand Bluff, Sand Dune, Lakewood (N.J.) Driveway through the Pines, Arcachon-France, Wattle Work to hold up an embankment in Germany, A plantation of beach-grass on the Dutch Dunes, A bleak bit of coast, An avenue on the crest of a sand dune in Holland, A Pinery on the dunes near Arcachon-France, Plantation of beach-grass and Pitch Pine on cape Cod for the fixation of the soil, Plantation in foreground moving dune in background on Cape Code, A scene on the Dutch Dunes, A Forester's makeshift, Christine Falls, Lower Christine Falls, Just Fishing
