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392; New Facts in the History of the Potato Blight, 302; Investigation 

 of the Potato Disease, 392; Fallow on the Potato Rot, 393; New Discovery 

 in Connection with the Potato Disease, 395; Cultivation of the Asparagus 

 in Prance, 391; Continuous Corn-growing, 396. 



J. PISCICULTURE AND THE FISHERIES (ccxxiv) 405 



(a.) THE FISHERIES. 



Exhibitions : the New Westminster Aquarium, 422 ; Change of "Water in 

 Aquaria, 42G; Yarmouth Aquarium, 440. Commissions: Operations of 

 the United States Fish Commission in 1875, 429 ; United States Salmon- 

 hatching Establishment, 434 ; Report of the Pish Commission of Canada, 

 405; Ninth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Commissioners of Fish- 

 eries, 406 ; Ninth Report of the Fish Commissioners of Connecticut, 406 ; 

 First Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of Michigan, 407; First 

 Annual Report of the Fish Commissioners of Minnesota, 408 ; Fifth Report 

 of the Fish Commissioners of Rhode Island, 408; Report of the Fish Com- 

 missioners of Pennsylvania for 1874, 409 ; Report of the Fish Commissioners 

 of New HampsMi'e for 1874, 410 ; Second Report of the Fish Commissioners 

 of Vermont, 411; First Report of the Fish Commissioners of Wisconsin, 

 411; Report of the Fish Commission of Virginia, 435; Seventh Annual 

 Report of the Fish Commissioners of New York, 437. 



General Facts and Statistics : Fish Consumption of "Washington in 

 1874, 415 ; Inspection of Fish in the Washington City Market, 1875, 436 ; 

 Fish at Great Depths, 425 ; New Fish Product, 435 ; Gloucester Fisheries 

 in 1875, 439 ; Fisheries of the Arctic Regions, 439 ; Newfoundland Fisheries 

 in 1874-5, 427. Special Fisheries Seal: Fisheries and Seal-hunting in 

 the White Sea and Northern Ocean, 413 ; Close Time for the Capture of 

 Seals, 414; Bad Condition of the Hair-seal Fisheries, 414. Menhaden: 

 Menhaden Oil and Guano, 417. Herring: Physical Condition of the 

 Herring Fishery, 433. Cod: Manufacture of Cod-liver Oil, 428. Appa- 

 ratus: Objection to the Use of Submerged Net-weirs, 413; Illumination 

 for Attracting Fish, 428. 



(b.) FISH-CULTURE. 



Associations : Third Annual Report of the American Fish-culturists' Asso- 

 ciation, 412; Meeting of the American Fish-culturists' Association, 412. 

 General Considerations : Effect of Polluted Water on Fishes, 416 ; In- 

 crease of English Fishes in Tasmania, 419; French Prizes for American 

 Fish, 426 ; Piscicultural Prizes, 425 ; Fish-culture in China, 427 ; Animal 

 Incrustation on the "Great Eastern," 432: Hybrid Fish, 418. Particular 

 Species : Experiments with Young Maine Salmon, 418 ; Salmon in the 

 San Joaquin, 430 ; Salmon Trade of the Columbia River, 431 ; Marked 

 Salmon, 432; Salmon in the Sacramento River, 432; United States Salmon- 

 hatching Establishment, 434 ; Failure in Introducing Salmon and Trout, 

 439 ; Distribution of Trout Eggs from Tasmania to the Neighboring Colo- 

 nies, 420; Food for Trout, 433; Mr. C. G. Atkins's Experiments on the 

 Artiiicial Hatching of the Smelt, 421 ; Importation of the Gourami into 

 Paris, 420; Seth Green's Artiiicial Hatching of Sturgeon, 422; French 

 Method of Oyster-culture, 420; Growth of Oysters in France, 439. 



