326 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1880 t— Wiuslovv, Praucis. Extracts from report of investigations of the 03^ster 

 l)cd8 in Tangier and Poconiolce sounds and parts of tbe Chesapeake Bay, 

 conducted during portions of the years 1878 and 1879. <Appendix to 

 Report of ihe Commissioners of Fisheries of Maryland, January, 1880, pp. 

 103-220. 

 A preliniiuary and abridged publication of 1882 j. 



1880 u — Anonymous. The oyster season: An epicure analyzing the animal and 

 intellectnal properties of the bivalve. <The Sea World, New York, 

 September 14, 1880, vol. ii, No. 5. 



1880 V — Anonymous. The oyster. <^Chamber8' Journal, Edinburgh, 1880, vol. 59, 

 pp. 59 et seq. 



1880 w— Anonymous. Mine oyster. <The Sea World, New Haven, February 9, 



1880, vol. 1, No. 26. 

 A description of tbe oyster industry of Louisiana. 



1881 a— Brady, Thomas P. Oyster Fisheries, Ireland. Digest of the Acts of Par- 



liament and the By-Laws at Present in Force in Ireland for the Regulation 

 of the Oyster Fisheries, to which is added a List of the Licenses Granted 

 for Oyster Beds, an<l an Abstract of the Law Enabling Certain Persons to 

 P'orm or Plant Bait Beds. Dublin, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. 

 8°, 43 pp. 



1881 b — Dickens, Charles (Editor). Something about oysters. <^A11 the Year 

 Round, London, March 26, 1881, vol. 46, pp. 534-537. 

 Discusses oysters gastronomically. 



1881 c — Ferguson, T. B. The oyster. <^Report of T. B. Ferguson, a Commissioner 

 of Fisheries of Maryland, .Tannary, 1881. Hagerstown, 1881. pp. cv-cxiv. 

 Cites the scientific investigations that had been made toward the preservation of the 

 Maryhuid oyster industry. 



1881 d— Harding, Charles W. Prize Essay, National Fisheries Exhibition, Nor- 

 wich, 1881, on the Utilization of Localities in Norfolk and Suffolk suitable 

 for the Cultivation of Mussels and other Shell Fish. Norwich, 1881. 4°, 

 4 pp. 



1881 e— Ingersoll, Ernest. The Oyster Industry. U. S. Fish Commission, Wash- 

 ington, 1881. 4°, 252 pp., 22 plates. 



This paper, the most voluminous and comprehensive yet published relative to the oyster 

 industry of America, contains a description of the industry in each of the United States, a 

 compilation of notes on the natural history of Ostrea virginiana, and a "glossary of 

 terms or oysterraau's dictionary." • 



1881 f — Ryder, John A. An account of experiments in oyster culture and observa- 

 tions thereto, made at St. Jerome's Creek, Maryland, during the summer 

 of 1880. <^ Appendix A to Report of a Commissioner of Fisheries of Mary- 

 land, January, 1881, Hagerstown, 1881. pp. 1-64. 



Discusses the anatomy and food of the oyster (Ostrea virginiana) and the faunae of 

 oyster beds, and describes certain methods for breeding oysters in confinement. See 1884s. 



1881 g — Shanks, W. P. G. Oysters and oyster culture. ^Lippincott's Magazine, 

 Philadelphia, May, 1880, vol. xxvii, pp. 479-492. 



An important discussion of the oyster industry of tbe Atlantic coast of the United 

 States, with a review of the cultural methods employed in France. 



1881 h— Winslow, Praucis. Deterioration of American oyster beds. <Popular 

 Science Monthly, New York, November and December, 1881, vol. xx, pp. 

 29-43 and 145-156. 



Discusses tbe deterioration of tbe reefs in the Chesapeake Bay, particularly those of 

 Tangier and Pocomoke sounds, and] suggests methods for restoring them to their former 

 couditiim of abundant productiveness. Tlie second chapter is devoted to the "natural 

 history of the oyster with esi)ecial reference to the process of reproduction and the con- 

 ditions influencing its rate of increase." 



