ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



525 



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Jfanufact nre, statistics of 190 



Mauufacturers, menhaden oil and guauo . . 29G, 297 



Manure, fish as 200,218,205,514 



ilannre, manufacture of fish 208 



ilaicLant, Captain 45,83,105, 118 



Marchant, C. B 272,416 



Markets, reviews of the oil 193 



Marsbanckers 11, 12, 13, 78 



Marsh-banker 13 



Marsh bunker 13 



Marshall, W. W" 81 



Martha's Vineyard Sound, menhaden in .. 45 



Martin, Chandler 271,390 



Maryland and Virginia, abundance of men- 

 haden on coast of 90 



Massachusetts, abundance of menhaden on 



the coast of 81 



Massachusetts, factories in 165 



Massachusetts fisheries 115 



Massachusetts inspections of pickled fish. 295 



Massachusetts, laws of 133 



Mattdwacca 1), 70 



Maylert,Dr 367 



Mayo, J. C 165,376 



McDonald, Daniel 144,276 



McDonald, Sir John 158 



McDonahl, Lewis 80 



McDonald, Roderick 144, 278 



McDonald, Samuel, esq 73 



McKay, James 146,278 



McKeen, James Gr 143,278 



McKinnon, Dougald 278 



McLean, James E 278 



McLellan, John 278 



McXiell, William S 278 



Measurements, table of 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31 



Mechanical methods of oil-extraction 178 



Megalops tbrissoides 69, 106 



Meinert, Dr. A 215,216,217 



Melanograramus aegleflnus ^9 



Men employed in fisheries 167 



Menhaden, origin of name 11 



Merchant, Horace M 82 



Merlucius biliuearis 106 



Merriraac Kiver, laws for 133 



Merrimac River and Salem Harbor, bait 



fishery in 148 



Merrimac River, mortality in 101 



Methods of capture of menhaden 113 



Methods of handling the net 123 



Methods of oil and guano manufacture. .. 220 



Micropterus nigricans 1(6 



Migrations 50,62,268 



Migrations of menhaden, arguments 



against, extended 65 



Milbert, M. M 286 



Miles Brothers 86 



Miles, George W 32, 33, 43, 65, 86, 116, 168, 



174, 179, 182, 272, 274, 437 



Miles, George TV., Company 4, 87, 88, 165, 167, 



171, 175, 181, 182, 185, 186, 187, 188, 

 189, 296, 297, 370, 371, 372, 436, 439 



Milner, Mr. James W 97, 167, 290 



Mint Head Company 431, 432 



Mississippi Sound 36 



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Mitchill, Prof. S. L 3,16,17,18,63,78,101, 



105,274,275,286 



Morgan, Elisha 162 



Morris, Albert 42, 90, 107, 116, 180, 182, 273, 451 



Morris & Fifleld 108,175,183,189,290 



Morse-honker 13 



Morton, Thomas 15,195 



Moss-banker 288 



Moss-bonker, the 13, 284, 287 



Moss-bunker 7, 9, 11, 12, 90, 111, 138, 103 



Monrt, George 196 



Mouse-bunker 13 



Movements of menhaden 208 



Movements of herring as influenced by 



weather 72 



Mud, bottom. Professor Verrill on 94 



Mud-minnow ^ 67 



Mud-shad 14 



Mullet 60,70 



MunTi.i whatteaug 11 



Muscongus Oil Works 172,402 



Mustelns Isevis 41 



Myrick, James H 277 



N. 



Name preferable for adoption 10 



Napoague, N. T., factory at 173 



Naphtha process 178 



Narrag.nnsett Bay region 44, 113 



Narragansett Oil and Guano Company 166, 423 



Nature, place of menliaden in 109 



Nelson, Wihiam H 277 



Now England menhaden fishing 124 



New Hampshire, abundance 81 



New Jersey, abundance 90 



New Jersey, abundance 90 



New Jersey, factories 168 



New Jersey, movements of schools 42 



New York, abundance 87 



New York, early oil works in 162 



New York, factories in 167 



New York, fi.sheries of 116 



New York, hf.libut fleet 151 



Nickels, L., & Co 391 



NicboLs, Thomas 297 



Nichols, Cap t. William 37 



Nicholsjn, John 278 



Nickerson, Caleb 277 



Nickerson, J. G 185, 186, 187, 358, 402 



Nickerson, J. G., & Co 370, 379, 384, 386 



Nickerson, J. S 297 



Nitrogen from Guano, comparison of yield 



of fish scrap 191 



North American Oil Works 165, 296 



North Carolina, abundance on the coast of 91 



North Carolina, fat-back fishing in 131 



North Carolina, movements of schools on 



coa.st of 40 



Northern waters, a claim that menhaden 



may be acclimated in 100 



Norton, C.B 178 



Norton, Professor 208 



Norton, Thomas 416 



Norton, Z. D 49 



Norwegian fish guano 214 



