342 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1887 j— Ganong, "W. P. The marine mollusca of New Brunswick. <Bulletin of tlie 



Katiual History Society of New Brunswick, Saint John, N. B., 1887, No. 



Yi, pp. 17-61. 

 Eefers to the roainiis in which oysters are found in the Province of New Brunswiclf. 

 1887 k — Ingersoll, Ernest. The oyster industry. <[The Fisheries and Fishery 



Industries of the United States. Washington, 1887. Sec. v, vol. ii, pp. 



505-565. 

 A modified reprint of " The Oyster Industry," U. S. Fish Connnission, "Washington, 1881. 



4°, 252 pp. See 1881 e. 

 18871 — Ninni, Alexander. Fish and oyster culture in the Province of Venice. 



<Biillctin U. S. Fish Commission, 1886. Washington, 1887, vol. vi, pp. 



177-186. 

 Translated by Herman Jacobson from Progetti per estendere la pescicoltura ed intro- 



durre la cocleocoltura nel fondo situato nei comuni censuari di Lugugnana e Caorle in 



Distretto di Portogruaro, Provincia di Venezia. Eorae, 1885. 



1887 m— Pike, R. G.; Hudson, W. M.,and Bill, J. A. Seventh Report of the Shell 

 Fish Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, for the year ending 

 October 31, 1887. Middletown, Conn., 1887. 8°, 44 pp. 



Devoted principally to the procedures of the Commissioners. From 1881 to 1886, inclu- 

 Bive, the State revenue from the oyster industry was $77,331.07, and the disbursements 

 $67,773.51. 



1887 n — Ryder, John A. A contribution to the life-history of the oyster (Oslrca 

 virginlca Gmelin and O. cdulis Liun.). <^The Fisheries and Fishei-y Indus- 

 tries of the United States. Washington, 1887. Sec. 1, vol. i, pp. 711-758, 

 plate 259. 



Discusses the following branches of the ti tie subject : (1) The coarse .inatomy of the oyster ; 

 (2) The minute anatomy of the oyster; (3) Sex, sexual products, and difference of sexual 

 habits of the American and European oysters; (4) New methods of distinguishing the 

 sexes and of taking the eggs of the oj'ster ; (5) Rate of growth of Ostrea virginica ; (6) The 

 food of the oyster ; (7) On the cause of the green color of the oyster; (8) Local variations 

 in the fonn and habits of the oyster; (9) The oyster-crab as a messmate and purveyor; 

 (10) Physical and vital agencies destructive to oysters, and (11) Natural and artificial 

 oyster banks. See 1893 1). 



1887 o — Ryder, John A. An exposition of the principles of a rational system of 

 oyster cultiire, together with an account of a new and practical method of 

 obtaining oyster spat on a scale of commercial importance. <[Report U. 

 S. Fish Commission, 1885. Washington, 1887, vol. xiii, pp. 381-424. 



Outlines a method by which. " it is possible to certainly secure an abundance of spat 

 under conditions which can be controlled, and within such an area and at such a cost as 

 will render it possible for persons po8.sessing the proper knowledge to undertake spat- 

 culture or the actual propagation of the oyster as a business." 



1887 p — Stearns, Silas. Some of the fisheries of western Florida. <^Bu]letin U. 

 S. Fish Commission, 1886. Washington, 1887, vol. vi, pp. 465-467. 



Approximates the area of oyster beds on the west coast of Florida at 12,800 acres, and 

 the product in 1884 at 75,000 bushels, for which the fishermen received $45,000. 

 1887 q — Worth, S. G. North Carolina encouragement to shell-fish culture. <^Trans- 

 artions of the American Fisheries Society, sixteenth annual meeting. 

 New York, 1887, pp. 53-59. 



Reviews the history of the enactment of the North Carolina oyster-planting law, of 1887, 

 and quotes that law in its entirety. 



1887 r— Worth, S. G. North Carolina encouragement to shell-fish culture. <For- 

 est and Stream, New York, August 11, 1887, vol. xxix, pp. 50-51. 

 A reprint of 1887 q. 



