OYSTKR BIRLIOGHAPIIY. 311 



1854 a— Seibold, C. Th. v. Amitomv of tlic^ liiv(Mtcl)ra1u. l^osfnn : Hoiild and Liu- 



coln, 1854. 8^, 170 p|). 

 The Aiepliala hit dfs.iilM-d mi pp. 184-222. 

 1854b— Parliameutaiy Paper. Letters from the Board of Trade of April 28, 1847, 

 to the Coiimaissiouers of Customs, aud of July 31, 1819, to Messrs. Rayson, 

 Alston and Gihbs, on the Subject of the Oyster Fi.shory on the East Coast 

 of England. Eondon, 1851. 



1855 a— Bush, George. A monstrous oyster shell. <Annal8 aud Magazine of Nat- 



ural History, Eoudou, February, 1855, pp. 91-92, 1 plate. 



Desrrlbes a vury Lirco oyster .shell, which somewhat resembled the .shell of Pholat 

 Candida, and disrus.scs its (nisiii. 



1855 b — Gray, J. E. A monstrous oyster shell. <| Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, London, March. 1855, p. 210. 

 A coutiuuatioii of the foregoing dis<:us8ion. 



1855 c — Henslovy, J. S. A monstrous oyster shell. <^ Annals and Magazine of Nat- 

 ural History, London, April, 1855, vol. xv, p. 314. 

 A ciiutiiiuntiDii of tlie discussion started by Bush. See 185.') a. 

 1856— Eytou, T. C. The oyster aud the oyster beds of the British shores, <Edin- 

 burgh New Philosophical Society of Natural Science, Edinburgh, October, 

 1856. vol. IV, No. II, pp. 354-355. 

 A repi-int of 1S.-.7 c. 

 1857 a— Carpenter, Philip. Report on the present state of our knowledge \vith 

 regard to the niollusca of the west coast of North America. <Report of 

 the twenty-sixth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, held at Cheltenham in August, 1856. London, 1857, pp. 159-368. 

 Species of Ostrea are listed and described. 

 1857 b— Eyton, T. C. Oyster breeding. <Annual of Scientific Discovery, Lon- 

 don, 1857, p. 365. 



Calls attention to the effect of the depth of water on the spawning eea.sou of oysters 

 and conipute.s the brood of three oysters at 3,000,000. 



1857 c — Eyton, T. C. The oyster and the oyster beds of the British .shores. <^Report 

 of the twenty-sixth meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, held at Cheltenham in August, 1856. London, 1857, pp. 

 368-370. 



Discusses briefly : (1) The oyster beds of England and the laws respecting them; (2) 

 An account of tho individual beds from the author's personal observation and inquiries; 

 (:i) Tlio n.atural liistory of the oyster (Ostrea edulis). See 1856 b. 



1857 d— Mac Andrev7. Robert. Report on the ^rarine testaceous molluscs of the 



northeast Atlanticand ncighboringjjeas, and the physical conditions affect- 

 ing their development. <Report of the twenty-sixth meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cheltenham 

 in August, 1856. London, 1857, pp. 101-1.58. 

 Lists and describes Ostrea on j)p. 114 and 13.5. 

 1857 e— Parliamentary Paper. Directions for Giving Effect to Certain Rules Made 

 by the Committee of Council for Trade on M.ay 2L 1857, Respecting the 

 Oyster Fisheries in the Seas between the British Isles and France. Lon- 

 don, 1857. 



1858 a— De Bow, J^ D. B. Oyster Trade of Virginia, Baltimore, and Fair Haven. 



<l)e liows Commercial Review, New Orleans, March, 1858, vol. 24, pp. 

 259-260. 

 A statistical review of the industry in each of the three localities incnfinncd. 



