314 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1865 d—Buckland, Prank, Heaps of oyster sliells. <l'li.' Kield, T.oiidoii. iM^brn- 

 ary 4, 1865. 

 Kefera to pi-evioiis distribution of oystsrs, as deleriiiiiieil by roiiiaining sbell b.eaps. 

 1865 e — Bucklaud, Frank. Youug oysters. <Tiaies, Loiidou, August, 1865. 

 1865 f— Caird, James; Huxley, T. H. ; aud Lefevie, G. S. Report of the Com- 

 missioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sea Fisheries of the United 

 Kingdom. \'ol. ii. Minutes of Evidence aud Index. London, Parlia- 

 mentary Paper, 1865, 4°, 1409 pp. 

 See 18GG 6. 

 1865 g — Clark, Henry James. Mind in Nature ; or the Origin of Life and the Mode 

 of Development of Animals. New Y'ork, 1865, 8-, 322 pp. 

 Tlie anatomy aud tlio biology of tbc oyster are discn-ssed on \t\<. 199-203. 



1865 h — Grimshaw, T. "W. Supposed eases of poisoning by oysters. <^Medical 

 / Press, Dublin, October 25, 1865, vol. Liv, p. 372. 



Cites an instance in which three persons were made ill from the eating of oysters. 



1865 i— Randall, Alex. Opinion in Relation to Taking Oysters in the Chesapeake 

 15ay and its Tributaries, to the General Assembly of Maryland. Annap- 

 olis, 1865, 8^, «pp. 



The opinion of the attorney-general of Maryland in reference to the anthority of the 

 State to restrict the taking of oysters to the citizens thereof and to issue licenses therefor. 



1865J — Anonymous. Oyster farming. -c^Cornhill Magazine, London, January, 

 1865, vol. XI, pp. .52-61. 



An exposition of the methods and results of oyster-culture on the western coast of 

 France and the southern coast of England, with v.aluahle statistical data. 



1865 k— Buckland, Frank. Oyster-citlture. <The Fisherman's Magazine and 



Review. London, October, 1865, vol. ii, pp. 470-473. 



An abstract of address delivered at the thirtytiftli meeting of tlie British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. See 186Ga. 



1868 a — Buckland, Frank. Report on the cultivation of oysters by natural and 

 artificial methods. ^Report of the thirty-liftli meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science; held at Birminghaju in Septem- 

 ber, 1865. London, 1866, pp. 3-15. 



This report of personal observations and experiments discusses the following subjects: 

 (1) The cultivation of oysters by natural means. (2) Tlie cultivation of oysters by artifi- 

 cial moans. (3) Experiments in hatcliing oyster eggs by artiticial heat. (4) Experiments 

 on a large scale on the fore shores. (5) The chemical analysis of the oyster. (6) Dredg- 

 ing and its efl'ects. (7) Comparisons of French and English systems of oyster-culture. 

 (8) Experiments in developing oyster-spat. (9) The causes of greenness in oysters. 



1866 b— Caird, James; Huxley, T. H., and Lefevre, G. S. Report of the Commis- 



sioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sea Fishciies of the United Kingdom. 

 Vol. I. The Report, and Appendix. London, Parliamentary Paper, 1866, 

 4°, cvii and 72 pp. One map. 



After making a very careful and exhaustive inquiry into the conditi<ji; of the oyster 

 industry of Great Britain, the commission summed up its observations as follows : 



" Wc find that the supply of oysters has very greatly fallen off during the last three or 

 four years. That tliis decrease has not arisen from overfishing, nor from any causes over 

 which man has direct control, but from the very general failure of the spat, or young of 

 the 05-8ter, which appears, during the years in question, to have been destroyed soon after 

 it was produced. A similar failure of spat has frequently happened before, and probably 

 will often happen again. Th.at the best mode of providing against these periodical fail- 

 ures of the spat is to facilitate tlie proceedings of tliose individuals or companies who may 

 desire to acquire so much ])roperty in favorably situated portions of the sea bottom as may 

 sufiice to enable them safely to invest capital in preparing and preserving these portions 

 of the sea bottom for oyster-culture. * * * That no regulations or restrictions upon 

 oyster fishing, beyond such as may be needed for the object just defined, have had, or are 

 likely to have, any beneficial effect upon the supply of the oysters." See 1865/ and 1868c. 



