488 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Playfair, Lyon 3G7 



Pleiades, schooner 334 



Pleuronectes cynoglossus . 80 



flesns 158 



limanda 159 



microcephalus 80 



solea 159 



Pogies, abundance of 128, 350 



Point Adams Company 75 



Poisoning of streams by serpents 238 



Polar Star, whaler ; . . 352 



Pollan 81 



Pollock 50,59,81 



landed at Gloucester 57, 61, 171, 



174,199,203,335 



migration of ... J 52 



roe of 411 



size of 49 



taking of 69 



Polygonum amphibium 339 



Polyprion cernium 81 



Pomonkey Point, shad eggs taken at 372 



Pompanos ..' 33,98,134,246,286 



Pontederia cordata 109 



Pools, confining of shad in 404 



Pope 81 



Porgies, appearance of 110, 337 



inspection of 105 



taking of 310 



Porgy fishery 207 



Porpoise fishery 3 



Porpoises, appearance of 347 



economic value of 415 



feeding of 336 



habitat of 110 



Port Angeles Harbor, codfish in 343 



Porter S. Roberts, schooner 345 



Post & Co 117 



Potamogeton crispus 110 



Potomac Creek, shad planted in 384 



Potomac River, big-eyed herring in 466 



pollution of 125 



shad and herring of 192 



shad eggs collected in . . . 385 



propagation in 1885. 369 



stations, work of 377, 385 



Pots 189 



Potts, Edward 46 



Pound-fishing at Erie 319 



Pound-nets in Potomac, prohibited 180 



Pound-nets in whit efish fisheries 116-119 



Pound-nets with gill-nets 324 



Powell, Captain 390 



Prawns 81,460 



Proceedings Boston Society of Natural 



History 140 



California Academy of Sci- 

 ences 356 



JNational Museum 33 



Proctor, Richard A 325 



Providence, shad planted near 384 



Puffers 49, 62 



Puget Sound, fisheries of 233 



Pumice 79 



Puysegur, experiments of 181, 182 



Q- 



Quinn, H. E 



Quinnat salmon in England 



Quoddy Head life-saving station. 



Page. 



340 

 273 

 347 



R. 



Raccoon oysters . 



Radiates 



Raia batis , 



clavata 



maculatus . 



55 



128 



81 



-. 81 



81 



Rainbow trout abroad 262, 273, 423 



disease affecting 472 



distribution of 470, 472 



hatching of 347 



loss of 470 



propagation of 436 



Rainbow-wrasse 459 



Ralph E. Eaton, schooner 345 



Ralph F. Hodgdon, schooner 345 



Rambo, Preston A 347 



Ramsbottom, James 471,472 



Ramsey, George M ; 37 



Rana esculenta 211 



pipiens 211 



Rangeley brook- trout, distribution of 470 



hatchery 465 



Ranger, steamer 169 



Ranunculus lingua 339 



Rapid Transit, schooner 206, 345 



Rapidan River, shad planted in 3?4 



Rapp, description of earthworm by 326 



Rappahannock River, shad planted in . . . 384 



Rasch, H 146,150 



Rathbun, Richard 44, 45, 47 



Ravenel, William de C 73 



Raveret-Wattel, C 244, 260, 423, 433 



Rays, taking of 431 



Red bass 86, 134 



eels 238 



mullets, as food for red snappers ..93, 458, 459 



snapper fleet 245 



snappers 92 



habitatof. 145 



in Indian River 98 



suckers 191 



turtles 238 



Red River, carp in 104 



Reddening of fish prevented 79 



Redding, B. B 30 



Joseph D 346 



Red-mouth buffalo-fish 338 



Red-throated trout 310 



Reed.Charles 161 



Rehberg, William 117 



Rein, G 138,142 



Relay House, shad planted at 384, 410 



Romania, whaler 352 



Report of Maryland Fish Commission 174, 423 



1 Reports of TJ. S. Fish Commission 42, 181, 267 



Republican River, shad planted in 385 



Resuscitation of fish 65 



Rhachianectes glaucus 139,141 



Rhizosolenia alata 268 



Rhode Island, oysters in 348 



