1274 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Johns Hopkins University, 720-722 ; Outline and Object of Com- 

 missioners' Report, 722-728 ; Possibilities of the Maryland Oyster 

 Industry, 728-733 ; cause of the exhaustion of beds, 733-736 ; 

 destruction of oysters, 736-739 ; return of shells to beds, 739-742 ; 

 exportation of oysters for planting, 742-743 ; planting southern 

 oysters in Delaware Bay, 743-745 ; prohibition of dredging and 

 protection of the tonging and planting industries, 745-751 ; the 

 closed season, 752-756; oyster fisheries of Tangier Sound, 756- 

 757 ; state revenue from oyster industiy, 758-759 ; open and 

 closed districts, 759-761; oyster planting, 762-763 ; oyster farm- 

 ing, 763-765 ; private and state culture, 766-771 ; oyster fishery of 

 Connecticut, 77I-/77; deep water oyster cultivation, 777-778; 

 expense of an oyster farm, 778-780; vicissitudes and losses of 

 oyster planting, 780, 781 ; management of the oyster farm, 781 ; 

 oyster industiy of New York, 781, 782; laws of New Yoi'k, 783- 

 785 ; form of application for a grant, 785 ; North Carolina fisheries, 

 785-788; summary of work, 788-790; instructions, 790-791; 

 method of conducting the investigation, 791 et seq. ; delineation 

 of beds, 791-796; tides, 796; specimens, 796-797; bottom and 

 water specimens, 797; substratum of bottom, 797-798; currents, 

 798, 808 ; number of oysters to the square yard, 798, 799 ; tem- 

 perature of the water, 799-801 ; names and areas, 801 ; oyster 

 beds of James River, 801-805; the fishery and its effects, 805, 

 806 ; mussel-hole bed, 806, 807 ; densities, 807, 808 ; currents, 

 808 ; deposits, 809-810 ; effect of gales and ice, 810-812 ; inform- 

 ation by oyster-men, 812-818; conclusions, 818-830; specific 

 gravities, 830-835; oyster industiy prior to 1887, 838-848; operation 

 of the new law, 848-850 ; method of locating lots, 850-851 ; oyster 

 fishery act of 1887, 852-859 ; form of application for private oyster- 

 ground in North Carolina, 859, 860 ; conclusion of Lieutenant 

 Winslow's Report, 860-861. 

 American, anecdote of an, 1115. 

 Box stew, 290. 



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Coast, the, 1029. 



Legislation for the protection of the oyster, 62. 



Naturalist, The, 1140. 



Oyster, The, 640, 641 



Prosperous in the basin of Ai'cachon, 674. 



Dr. Brooks and, 1137, 1139, 1140. 



