330 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1883 r — Huxley, Thomas H. Oysters and the oyster question. <]The English 

 Illustrated Magazine, London, October, 1883, and November, 1883, vol. i, 

 pp. 47-55, and pp. 112-121. 



A lecture delivered at the Roy.al Institution, London, on May 11, 1883, ^vith additional 

 notes. Describes, in a popular manner, the minute anatomy and the biology of Ostrea edulii, 

 and reviews the oyster industry of Europe, with notes on the efficiency of certain regula- 

 tions. Concludes that the abundance or scarcity Of oysters dppeuds on causes that can 

 not be materially affected by restrictive legislation. All such legislation is in itself 

 objectionable, inasmuch as it creates new offenses and tends to make the administration of 

 justice odious, and the burden of proof is always on those who advocate it to show that its 

 utility is so great and manifest as to outweigh the inconvenience. 



1883 s — Lockwood, Samuel. Natural history of the oyster. <^ American Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal, Boston, .January, 1883, vol. iv, pp. 7-8. 



Abstract of a popular address delivered by the author before the New Tork Microscop- 

 ical Society, December 15, 1882. 



1883 1 — Lockyer, J. N. Oysters, oyster fishing, and oyster culture at the Fisheries 

 Exhibition. <Nature, London, August 30, 1883, vol. xxviii, pp. 415-416. 



Recites briefly the exhibits made in those lines by various countries at the London 

 Fisheries Exhibit, 1883. 



1883 u— Mobius, Karl. The oyster and oyster-culture. <ReportU. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion, 1880. Washington, 1883, vol. viii, pp. 683-752. 



Translated by H. J.Rice, from ' Die Auster und die Austernwirthschaft; von Karl 

 Mobius, Berlin, 1877, 8°, 126 pp. Discusses the following branches of the subject, especial 

 reference being made to the Schleswig-Holstein oyster.s: (1) The sea flats. (2) Oyster 

 banks and oystering. (3) The reproduction of the oyster. (4) Why oysters are not found 

 over all portions of the sea flats. (5) Artificial oyster-breeding in Frtince. (6) Attempts 

 to introduce the French system of oyster-breeding into Great Britain. (7) Can the French 

 system of artificial oyster-breeding be carried on in the waters of the German coast? (8) 

 Can natural oyster-beds be enlarged, and can new beds bo formed, especially along the 

 German coast? (9) Growth and fecundity of the oyster. (10) An oyster-bed is a bioconose 

 or a social community. (11) Concerning the increase in the price of oysters and in the 

 number of consumers, and the decrease in the number of oysters. (12) The chemical con- 

 stituents and flavor of oysters. (13) The objects and results of oyster-culture. 



1883 V — Osborn, Henry L. The structure and growth of the shell of the oyster. 

 <^.Studie8 from the Biological Society of Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, 1883, vol. II, pp. 427-432, with 1 plate. 



1883 ■w — Pike, R. G ; Hudson, "W. M., and Woodruff, Geo. N. Second report of 

 the Shellfish Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, to the General 

 Assembly, January session, 1883, Middletown, Conn., 1883, 8", 44 pp., 1 

 map. 



A record of the proceedings of the Commission in 1882, with official designations of the 

 several natural oyster beds under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State, and the State 

 law.s relating to shell fisheries enacted in 1882. The map shows the triangulation work 

 executed in 1882. * 



1883 X — Rasch, H. H. On the reason for an extraordiuarily rich production of 

 oysters in a natural basin. <Report U. S. Fish Commission, 1880. Wash- 

 ington, 1883, vol. VIII, pp. 1037-1044. 



Translated by Tarleton H. Beau from Nordisk Tidsskrift for Fiskori, 1880, pp. 49-58. 



The natural basin consisted of a small lake situated a fewfeet higher than the open sea 

 close outside of it, and which could receive salt water from the sea only during severe 

 storms. 



1883 y — Renaud, J. An giccount of the Portuguese and French oysters (Osirea 

 aiir/iilata and Ostred editlis) cultivated in the Bay of Arcachon. <Report 

 U. S. Fish Commission, 1880. Washington, 1883, vol. viii, pp. 931-938. 

 Translated ft-om Kotice sur I'Huitre Portugaise et Fran5aise caltiv6e dans la Bale 



d'Arcaclion, Arcachon, 1878, 4°, 33 pp. 



