OYSTEE BIBLIOGKAPHY. 349 



1891 s— Smith, Hugh M. Notes ou au improved form of oyster tongs. < Bulletin 

 U. S. Fish Commission, 1889. Washington, 1891, vol. 9, i)p. 161-164. 



Describes am\ reconmiends tLc employment of the impleuieut coiumouly known aa the 

 "deepwiiter toug." 



1891 1— Thompson, W.H. Some reasons why the State of Maryland should im- 

 prove the oyster beds. <^Tho Daily Americau, Baltimore, January 21, 

 1891. 



1891 u— Weeks, Thomas C. Speech delivered at the Concordia Opera House [Bal- 

 timore], on Thursday, April 30, 1891, under the auspices of the Canton 

 Oyster Exchange of Baltimore City. 1891. 8°, 16 pp. 



Cites reasons why Maryland should not lease or sell to individuals or corporations any 

 portion of the oyster-grounds of the Chesapeake Bay. 



1891 V— "Wilson, E. L. Biography of the oyster. <Scribner's Monthly, Ne^y York, 



October, 1891, vol. x, pp. 469 et seq. 

 1891 w— Anonymous. Facts about the oyster. <The Daily American, Baltimore, 



January 26, 1891. 



A review of the industry in ilaryland and Virginia, with brief references to other 

 States. 



1891 X — Anonymous. Oysters. <Saturday Review, London, October 3, 1891, vol. 

 72, p. 384. 



Brief popular reference to the beginning of the oyster season and the reproduction of 

 oysters. 



1891 y — Tilton, John, Oysters in the British Provinces. Annual Report of the 

 Department of Fisheries, Dominion of Canada, for the year 1890. Printed 

 by order of Parliament. Ottawa, 1891, pp. li-lxii. 

 A history of the regulations of the fishery in Canada. 

 1891 z— Fullarton, J. H. On the suitability of Scottish waters for oyster culture. 

 <Niuth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, being for the 

 year 1890. Part iii. Scieutiiic Investigations. Edinburgh, 1891, pp. 184- 

 200. 



Paper based on a physical and biological examination made during the summer of 1890. 

 "InScotland itcan hardlybe said that the oyster industry exists. If itdoes exist at all, it 

 is only in the earliest initiatory stage. It seems as if it were merely a groping after oyster 

 culture, and tliat, too, on a minimum scale." The product of the oyster beds of Scotland 

 in 1888 was valued at £742. 



1891 aa — Fullarton, J. H. Oyster fishery of Scotland. <Transactions of the 

 Philosophical Society of Glasgow, session 1890-91. Glasgow, 1891. 



A contribution to the economic phases of the industry in Scotland. Compares the 

 prcsint .status of the fishery with the condition a century .ago. 



1891 ab— Nelson, Julius. Report of the biologist. <Eleventh Annual Report of 

 the Now Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station aiul the Third 

 Annual Report of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station 

 for the year 1890. Trenton, N. J., 1891, pp. 251-320. 



A report of experiments conducted by the author during the sununer of 1890, looking 

 toward a practical method of artificially fertilizing and growing oysters. 



1891 ac— Collins, J. W. Notes on the oyster lishery of Connecticut. <Bullctin 

 U. S. Fish Commission, 1889. Washington, 1891, vol. ix, pp. 461-497, plates 



CLIX-CLXVI. 



1891 ad — Cox, James C. New South Wales. Fisheries of the Colony. Report of 

 the Commissioners of Fisheries for the year ending 3lst December, 1890. 

 [Sydney, 1891.] 4^, 44 pp. 



Reports the condition of the oyster industry of New South Wales in 1890, and contains 

 • copy ol the act of 1891 that consolidated and amended the oyster laws of the colony. 



