OYSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 345 



1887 s— Young, Archibald. The Salmon sea-trout, and oyster ond mnssel fisheries 

 in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. <Fifth Annual Report of tlie Fish- 

 ery Board for Scotland, being for the year 1886. Edinburgh, Her Majesty's 

 Stationery ODice, 1887. Appendix G, pp. 361-413. 



The oyster resources of the Orkney Islands are described on pp. 376-382, and of the 

 Shetland Islands on pp. 393-395. This paper contains an exhaustive review of the oyst«r 

 fishery in the Orkney Islands since the beginning of the sixteenth century, the same 

 being written by Mr. W. G. T. Watt. 



1887t — Anonymous. The oyster problem : difficulties in the way of North Carolina 



planters. <The Sun, Baltimore, April 21, 1887. 

 1887 u— Anonymous. The New York Oyster Commission. <Forest and Stream, 



New York, July 28, 1877, vol. xxix, pp. 9-10. 



A review of the "Second Report of the Oyster Investigation and Survey of Oyster Ter- 

 ritory, for the years 1885 and 1886." Transmitted to the Legislature January 20, 1887. 



Albany, 1887. 4°, 47 pp., 1 map, 5 plates. See 1887c. 

 1887 V — Anonymous. Oyster fishing: the industry in Rhode Island and how car- 

 , ried on. <The Providence .Journal, Providence, November 6, 1887. 



A comprehensive description of the methods of growing oysters in Rhode Island waters. 

 1887 w — Anonymous. New York oyster franchises. <:^ Forest and Stream, New 



York, November 17, 1887, vol. xxix, p. 329. 

 1887 X— Anonymous. French and Irish oysters. <The Fish Trades Gazette and 



Game and Poultry Trades Chronicle, London, February 5, 1887, vol. iv, 



No. 190. 

 1887 y— Anonymous. Delaware Law. An act in Relation to Oysters. Passed at 



Dover, March 28, 1887. Dover, Delawarean Print, 1887. 4°, 10 pp. 



1887 z— Seed, William. Fish-culture in New Zealand. <Bulletin U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, 1886. Washington, 1887, vol. vi, pp. 213-216. 



Refers to the regulations governing the oyster fishery of New Zealand and estimatea 

 the extent of the product. 



1887 aa — Ryder, John A. On a tumor in the Oyster. <Proceedings of the Acad- 



emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1877, pp. 25-27. 

 1888a — Atwater, W. O. Oysters as food. <Reportof the Oyster Investigation and 

 Shell Fish Commission, for the year ending November 30, 1887. Appendix 

 A, pp. 53-78. Albany, 1888. 

 A continuation of 1883 c and 1885 a, 



1888 b — Atwater, W. O. Fattening of oysters. <Report of the Oyster Investi- 



gatiou and Shell Fish Commission for the year ending November 30, 1887. 

 Appendix B, pp. 79-92. Albany, 1888. 



Reprinted from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, sixteenth .annual 

 meeting, New York, 1887, pp. 37-52. 



1888 c— Bertram, James G. Oyster-growing in England, France, and America. 

 <^National Review, London, September, 1888, a'oI. xn, pp. 102-114. 



1888 d— Blackford, Eugene G. Report of the Oyster Investigation and Shell 

 Fish Commission, for the year ending November 30, 1887. Transmitted 

 to the Legislature .January 25, 1888. Albany, 1888. 8^, 106 pp. 



This, the third .md final report ou oyster investigation autliorized by the General Assem- 

 bly of New York, discusses on pp. 1-52 the depletion of the public beds of that State and 

 the noces.oity for private culture; also the pollution of the water contiguous to the oyster 

 4>ed8 by refuse from oil refineries and similar establishments. The appendix contains the 

 State shellfish enactments of 1887. 



1888 e— De Sails, Harriet A. Oysters h la Mode ; or, the Oyster and over 100 Ways 

 of Cookiug it, to which are added a few Receipts for Cooking all kinds of 

 Shellfish. London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1888. 12°, 68 

 pp. 

 Containi 112 redp«i for cooking oysters. 



