868 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Notwithstanding the enormous consumption of oysters 

 from time immemorial in China, there appears to be no 

 diminution of the supply. In the north, on the shores of 

 the Shantung promontory, at the mouths of the Yangtsze 

 and Ningpo rivers, all along the coasts of the Fohkien 

 and Kwantung provinces, and on the seaboard of Formosa, 

 the cultivation of oysters is carried on with much skill and 

 success. Considering their dearness and scarcity in Europe, 

 a thoroughly scientific inquiry as to the methods pursued by 

 the Chinese would undoubtedly yield important results, fbj 



(b) " The Fisheries of China," by J. Duncan Campbell, Commis- 

 sioner for China. (Papers of the Conferences, &c., International 

 Fisheries Exhibition.) 



