62 THE ECONOMIC MOLLUSCA OF ACADIA. 



for this purpose. Many other minor conditions are also 

 favorable, and there is an immense market both in Canada 

 and the United States, for many times the quantity now 

 l^roduced. 



The Oyster has but few uses aside from those mentioned. 

 Its shells are used in Oyster-culture, to spread on the beds for 

 the young to attach themselves to, and they are also much 

 used in road-making in parts of the United States, and they 

 have even at times been burned for lime. 



Works of Reference. 



■ (a) General. 



Oyster. By J. T. Cunningham and T. Brown Goode. 

 Encyclopaedia Bntannica, 9th Ed,, Vol. XVIII., 

 1885, pp. 106-110. 



Fisheries Exhibition Literature, London, 1884, Vols, 

 v., VL and XL 



Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, "Washing- 

 ton, 1884, 4°, pp. 771-758. 



Fishery Industries of the United States, Washington, 

 4°, Vol. IL, Section V,, pp. 507-565. 



Reports of the Maryland Oyster Commission. 



■ (b) Anatomy and Development, etc. 



The Oyster, Clam, and other common Mollusks. By 

 A. Hyatt. Boston, 1884. 65 pp. Several plates. 



The Development of the American Oyster. By W. K. 

 Brooks. Studies from Biological Lab, Johns- 

 Hopkins Univ., lA^., pp. 1-104. 



Report on New York Fisheries for 1884. New York, 

 1884. 

 - (c) Oyster-culture. 



Oyster-culture. Bv W. F. G. Shanks. Lippincott's 

 Magazine, Vol. XXVIL, 1881, pp. 479-492, cuts. 

 [Good popular account at that date.] 



Bulletins of the United States Fish Commission from 

 Vol. I., 1881, up to the present. [Contain records 

 of culture in America and translations of foreign 

 works.] 



