OYSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 321 



1876b— Francis, Francis. The bitedino; of the oyster. <The Fiekl, London, 

 November 18, 1876. 



1876c — Francis, Francis. The hreediug of the oyster. <The Field, London, 

 December 2, 1876. 



1876 d— Hamilton, Lord Claud; Lefevre, G. Shaw; Stanhope, Edward (and 

 others). Report from the Select Committee on Oyster Fisheries; together 

 with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, 

 and Index. House of Commons, London, July 7, 1876. 4'^, xx + 334 pp. 

 This coniniittee was appointed to inquire " the reasons for the present scarcity of oysters 

 on the British coasts." The report of tlie committee is briefly summed up as follows: 

 There are not, in consequence of the increasing demand and consequent high price, so 

 many full-grown oysters left to spat as there ought to be, hence the scarcity. Tlie paper 

 contains 1,941 questions and answers relative to oysters and the oyster industry of Great 

 Britain. 



1876 e — Kent, Saville. Reproduction of oysters. <The Field, London, April 22, 

 1870. 



1876 f— Lavoine, Napoleon. Oyster tishory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. <Report 

 of the Commissioner of Fisheries, for the year ending 3l8t December, 1875. 

 Ottawa, printed by Maclean, Rogers & Co., 1876, pp. 53-54. 

 A brief review of the condition of the industry in 1875. 

 1876 g— Lockyer, J. N. Our oyster fisheries. <Nature, London, August 3, 1876, 

 vol. XIV, p. 285. 



Reviews briefly the report of the British i)arliamentary "select committee on the oyster 

 fisheries" of 1876. 



1876h — "Woods, "W. Fell. The breeding of the oyster. <The Field, London, Novem- 

 ber 25, 1876. 



18761 — Parliamentary paper. Report of Inspectors Appointed by tlie Board of 

 Trade, under the 45th Section of ''The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868," to Inquire 

 into the State of the Fisheries Established under Orders made by the 

 Board, in Pursuance of part 3 of the Above Named Act. London, 1876. 



Describes the oyster fisheries of Blackwater (Essex), Boshani, Boston Deeps, Emsworth, 

 Emsworth Channel, Firth of Forth, Greshernish, Hanible, Holy Loch, Langston, Lynn 

 Deeps, Paglesham, lloach River, and Swansea. 



1876J — Anonymous. Oysters : native and foreign. <;Whittakor's Journal of Amus- 

 ing and Instructive Literature, London, 1876. 



1876 k — Anonymous. The oyster. ^Saturday Review, London, August 26, 1876, 



vol. XLii, pp. 260-261. 



Reviews and deprecates the necessity for the report of the " seleot committee on the 

 oyster fisheries " of 1876. See 1878 d. 



1877 a— Bouchon-Brandely, G. Oyster Culture on the Shores of the Channel and 



of the Ocean. Parliamentary paper, London, 1877. 

 Translated from.foiirnal officiel de la U6publiquo Frangaiso, of January 22, 18.77. 



1877 b— Brooks, W. K. The affinity of the Mollusca and MoUuscoida. < Pro- 

 ceedings Hoston Society of Natural Hi.story, February 2, 1876. Boston, 

 1877, vol. xviii, pp. 225-236. 



1877 c — Browne, Orris A. Rei)ort on the oyster beds of Virginia. <Annual Rei)ort 

 of the Fisii ('onunis.siouer of the State of Virginia for the year 1877. 

 Riclimond, 1877, 8 ^ pp. 26-43. 



An abridgment of 1^72/;. 



1877 d— Dyer, W. T. Thiselton. (irceniug of oysters. <Nature, Loudon, Septem- 

 ber 6, 1877, vol. XVI, p. 3!i7. 



Refers to the green color being ])articularly ((iiiiiiinn in tlio oysttu's in the vicinity of 

 Croisic, and attributes it to certain diatoms in the food of I he oyster, especially I^uvicula 

 fusi/ormis Grunow. var. pHrearia. 



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