'J'ABLK OF CONTENTS. VII 



Page. 



— The Protozoa auil Frotopbytes Cousiileied as the, Piiinary or Imlircct Source, of the Food 



of Fishes 236 



— The Micropyleof the Egg of the White Perch 282 



— Development of the Silver Gar (Belone longirostriis), with Observations ou the Genesis 

 of the IJlood in Embryo Fishes, and a Comparison of Fish Ova with those of other Verte- 

 brates 283 



— On the Nuclear Cleavage-Figures Developi<l dmiug the Segmentation of the Germinal 



Disk of the Egg of the Salmon 335 



— Notes on the Breeding, Food, and Green Color of the Oyster 403 



— Additional Observations on the Retardation of the Development of the Ova of the Shad. 422 



Shears, E . E . Carp in the Hudson River 54 



Sniilcy, Cha!«. W. Changes in the Fisheries of the Great Lakes during the decade 1870- 



1880 252 



Stoii<>. Ijiviiig»«ton. Mortality of McCloud River Salmon in 1881 134 



!<^v4-iits<-h, Joseph. A Depot for Embryonated Eggs of all the Valuable Kinds of Fish. . . 345 



Throckmorton, S. K. The Introduction of Striped Bass into California 61 



Description of the Fish- Way in Pitt River, California 202 



Walpole, S., and Prof. T. H. Huxley. Disease Among the Salmon of Many Rivers 



of England and Wales 429 



Weddige, Herr. Castrating Fish 59 



WigS' Dr« Oeorge. On the Insensibility of the German Carp to Freezing 402 



Willis, H. Shad Fisheries of the Susijuehanna River Fifty-Six Tears Ago 261 



Wilmot, Saninel. Introduction of California Salmon into Ontario, with Remarks on the 



Disappearance of Maine Salmon from that Province 347 



— Remarks on the Scarcity of Male and Grilse Salmon in the Rivers of Ontario, Canada .. 379 



Wilson, Thomas. The Proposed Introdnction of Catfish into Ghent 340 



^Vorth, S. Cr. The Artificial Propfigation of the Striped Bass {Eoeeus Uneatus) in Albemarle 



Sound - 174 



Wright, Abel A. A Georgia Carp Pond 08 



Wright, Harrison, Chairman of the Committee. Report of a Committee of tlie "Wyoming 



Historical and Geological Society on the Earlj^ Shad Fisheries of the Nortli Branch of the 



Susquehanna River 352 



Zentz, F, On the Races or Varieties of Carp, Denying the Existence of Blue Carp and Gold 



Carp 387 



MiSCEI.LA-NF.OrS AND REPRINTS. 



Protection of Whales 17 



American Birds, Animals, and Fishes f ir New Zealanders 53 



Peat-Bogs as FishPonds 58 



Official Papers Relating to the Projjosed International Fisheries Exhibition at Edinburgh 



in 1882 130 



Pachaly's Car for Transporting Fish , 207 



Memorandum of some Results of the Artifical Propagation and Planting of Fish, dne 



mainly to the Efforts of the United States Fish Commission 208 



Introduction of the Aland, or Orfe, into England 218 



Some Results of the Artificial Propagation of Maine and California Salmon in New 



England and Canada, Recorded in the years 1879 and 1880 270 



Progress and Result.': of Fisli-Culture 396 



