TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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 Abbe, W. A., 120. Proposed Limitation of Menhaden Fishing to July 1, and of Mackerel 



Fishing to June 15 — Occurrence of Herring 468 



Anderson, John, S6. Notes on the Biology of the Salmon and Grilse 429 



A I wood, IV. E., S9. Unexplained Variations in the Yield of Oil from Cod Livers 431 



Babbitt, John ©., 116. The Injurious Effect of Menhaden Steamers upon the Food 



Fisheries 463 



ISaii'd, Spencer F., 30. The Instruction of Naval Midshipmen in Taxidermy, Ichthy- 

 ology. &c, at the United States National Museum and on board the Steamers of the United 



States Fish Commission 239 



, 94. Purchase of Professor Poey's Ichthyologia Cubana by the Spanish Government. 439 



Barker, E. E., 110. The Incipiency of the Menhaden Oil Business 456 



Barnes, William M., SO. Supposed Occurrence of Sail-fish (Histiophorus) 423 



Bartlett, S. P., 61. The Cultivation of Croppies in Ponds 362 



Bean, Tarleton EI., 19. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Fish 197 



liclir, von, 60. Management of Spawning Carp 392 



Borne, VI ax von deni, 26. The American Black Bass 221 



Brown, James Temple., 75. Some Notes on Whales 411 



Buck, II. II., 108. R.port upon Hatching One million Whitefish Eggs from the Great 



Lakes, at Orland, Me., and upon Planting the Young in Eagle Lake, Mount Desert 454 



Gary, II. II., 104. Period of Incubation of Eggs of German Carp 447 



Church, Daniel T., 115. Why the Size of Mesh in Menhaden Seines should not be 



Restricted 463 



Clark, Frank IV., 34. Spawning of California Mountain Trout, Reared in Confinement, 



from Eggs brought from McCload River 256 



Clark, Frank IX., and Seymour Bower, 58. On the Propriety of Depositing 



Whitefish Minnows off the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio 349 



Collins, J. W., OS. Success of the Gill-net Cod Fishery on the New England Coast, 



Winter of 1S82-83 441 



Crosby, John Schuyler, 49. Stocking the Streams of Montana with Fish 301 



Ball, William H., 82. Notes on the Pacific Coast Trade in Shells, Shrimps, Cod and 



Salmon 425 



D'lloinergne, Eouis C, 111. Reasons for Restricting the Use of Steamers and Seines 



in the Menhaden Fishery 456 



Bohrn, Anton, 91. The Zoological Station at Naples, Italy 433 



Bownmau, B. II., 67. What Frogs sometimes Eat 392 



— > , 68. Shad, Herring, &c, excluded from the Rappahannock River by Dams 392 



Bresser, Henry, 92. Notes on the Natural nistory of the Buffalo 436 



Ear!!, B. E., 102. Proposed Limitation of the Herring Fishery in Maine and its Effects 



upon Bait and Canning Interests 445 



Farr, S. C, S4. Description of a California Salmon (Oncorhynchus sp.) found in one of the 



Kivers of New Zealand and Identified by Dr T. H. Bean 427 



Friedlaender. Oscar O., 112. Notes on 1 he Menhaden Fishery 459 



Gardner, A. P., 78. Experiments in the Fond Culture of Trout, Suckers, and Catfish .. 417 



Grant, Isaac H., 123. Movements of Menhaden— Catch of Herring 470 



Hauna, S. W., 73. Description of an Eel-like Creature taken in a Net at New Harbor, 



Maine, in 1 880 407 



Harris, Ctwynn, 131 . Total Amount of Shad and Herring caught on the Potomac River 



during the Spring of 1882 - .- 477 



Hessel, Bud., 100. Arrival of Blue Carp from Germany 443 



Ilolberton, Wakcman, 16. The Successful Stocking of Streams with Trout 192 



Hubrecht, A. A. W., 56. Fish Culture as seen at the London Exhibition, with Special 



References to its History, Apparatus, and Methods iu the United States 337 



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