306 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Tlie picn)aiatioii of a complete bibliogi-apby of oysters andtlie oyster 

 industries was originally contemplated, but tlie facilities for examining 

 many publications in foreign languages are so unsatisfactory tluit the 

 present paper has been rCvStricted to worivs in the English language. 

 It is recognized that such a bibliography must necessarily omit refer- 

 ence to some foreign publications of value. The number of these, 

 however, is much reduced by the enterprise of American scientists and 

 economists in causing nu>st of the important foreign publications to be 

 translated into English. Among the valuable foreign reports which 

 have been translated may be mentioned Voyage d'Exploration sur le 

 Littoral de la France et de I'ltalie, by Jean Jacques Coste (Paris, 18(11, 

 4°, 297 pp.), trauslated in the Report of the U. S. Fish Commission for 

 1880; T^itude sur I'Industrie Huitriere des T^^tats-lniis, by P. De Broca 

 (Paris, 18G5, 12°, 200 pp.), translated in the Report of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission for 1873-74: and 1874-75; and Die Auster und die Austern- 

 wirthschaft, by Karl Mobius (Berlin, 1877, 8^, 120 ])p.), translated in 

 the Report of theU. S. Fish Commission for 1880. 



There are, liowever, several important reports on the anatomy and 

 biology of the oyster that have not yet been translated into English. 

 Among these are several of the publications of the Nederlands(die 

 Dicrkundige A'ereeniging from 1881 to 1885. The prominent pioneer 

 works on the development of the oyster by Davaine* and Lacaze- 

 Duthierst are also without English translations. 



It is not within the scope of the present compilation to refer to 

 papers dealing only with the nomenclature and classification of oysters, 

 or to encyclopedia articles. Omission has also been made of a very 

 extensive repository of information relative to regulations governing 

 the oyster industries, viz, the session acts of various legislative bodies. 



The bibliography here presented contains references to 54() .separate 

 publications, the work of over 278 authors. Of these*papers, 294 Avere 

 issued in the United States, 20 in Canada, 170 in England, 25 in Scot- 

 land, 10 in Ireland, and 115 in various other countries. Of the American 

 publications, 73 were issued by the U. S. Fish Commission, of which 25 

 were translations and 48 original articles. 



Brief abstracts of important or interesting statements in many of 

 the i:>apers are given, in order to increase the usefulness of the paper. 



The compilation is accompanied by a subject index and an author's 

 index to facilitate the finding of references to works on various subjects 

 and the papers of individual writers. 



*C. Davaine: Recherches sur la G^iu'ration des Hultres, in Comjites Reudus and 

 Mem. de la Soc. de Biologie, Paris, vol. iv, 18.53, pp. 295-339, -with 2 plates. 



tH. De Lacaze-Dutliiers: Memoire sur le Developpement des Acephales Lamelli- 

 hranclies (Ostrea), in Comptos Rendns de I'Acad. des Sc. Paris, vol. xxxix, pp. 103 ef 

 Kiq. Also, Nonvelles Observations sur le D<^veloppenient des Huitres, in Comptes 

 Kendus de I'Acad. des Sc. Paris, vol. xxxix, pp. 1197 et seq., etc. 



