4: REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



IX. The continued investigation of the life history of the lobster 

 and the habits of the lobster in all stages of growth, to furnish a basis 

 for legislation and commercial enterprise. Page 95. 



X. The preparation of an exhibit illustrative of sea farming, in- 

 cluding live fishes in salt water aquaria, for the Washington County 

 Fair, for the purpose of interesting the people of the state in the mag- 

 nificent possibilities of " sea farming." Page 211. 



XI. The preparation of an exhibit for the international exhibi- 

 tion at Jamestown. Page 218. 



Appended to the report are the following: 



A. Officers of the United States Bureau of Fisheries and of the 

 State Fisheries Authorities. Page 219. 



B. Fisheries Laws of Rhode Island. Page 227. 



C. General Index to the Reports of the Commissioners of Inland 

 Fisheries of the State of Rhode Island. Page 241. 



D. Titles of Special Papers published in the Annual Reports of 

 the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries of the State of Rhode Island. 

 Page 257. 



Under some of these captions are submitted special articles as 

 follows : 



Under IV. 



The Fishes of Rhode Island, III: The Fishes of the Mackerel Family. H. 

 C. Tracy. 



A List of Rare Fishes taken in Rhode Island in the year 1906. H. C. Tracy. 

 List of the Rhode Island Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Octracoda, with new 

 species of Copepoda. Dr. Leonard W. Williams. 



Under VIII: 



Lobster Culture at Wickford, R. I., in 1906. Ernest W. Barnes. 



Under IX: 



Regenerated and Abnormal Aj^pendages in the Lobster. V. E. Emmel. 



