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18921 — McMenamiu, James. A Review of Goveinor JIcKinuey's Message ou the 



Oyster Question. IIami>ton, Va., Mouitor Advance Print, 1892, 8°, 11 pp. 



1892 m — Rathbun, Richard. Oyster culture on the Atlantic coast. <]ReiJort U. S. 



Fish Commission, 1888. Washington, 1892, vol. xvi, pp. lix-lxv. 



Reviews the .scientitic work of the U. S. Fish Corainiasion during the fiscal year 1887-88 



in the investigation of the oyster beds of the Atlantic coast of the United St.ate3. 



1892 n — Seth, Joseph B. Annual Report of the Commander of Maryland State 

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 Reviews briedy the condition of the Maryland oyster fishery in 1891. 



1892 o— Thompson, W. H. Free fishery rights in oystering. <The Daily Ameri- 

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1892 p— Weeks, Thomas C. The Oyster Industry of Maryland. <Fourth Bien- 

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Discusses the general condition of the fishery during the preceding four seasons, and 

 contains a summary or epitome of all the oyster laws of the State operative in 1891. 



1892 q — Young, Archibald. Report by Archibald Young, advocate, Inspector of 

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1892 r — Anonymous. Oyster farming. <^The Daily American, Baltimore, Febru- 

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 A description of the present methods of oyster-culture practiced at Arcachon, France. 



1892 s— Anonymous. The oyster: How the delicious bivalve is raised and eaten 

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1892 1 — Anonymous. Compilation of the Oyster Laws of Virginia, 1892. Rich- 

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1892 u — Anonymous. Maryland State Fishery Force. Article lxxii. Oysters, 



1892. [Annapolis, 1892.] 8°, 37 pp. 



A compilation of the general oyster laws operative in Maryland in 1892. 



1892 V — Scliiedt, R. C, and Ryder, J. A. Dift'use pigmentation of the epidermis 



[not periostracum] of the oyster, due to prolonged exposure to the light, 

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1893 a— Brooks, W. K., and Knower, H. McE. The Oyster Industry. <Maryland, 



its Resources, Industries, and Institutions. Prepared for the Board of 

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A compilation of previously -published data relative to the natural history of oysters 

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1893 b— Cox, James C. The Australian oyster, its cultivation and destruction. 

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1893 c — Cox, James C. The oyster fisheries laws. Address delivered before the 

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 iNew South Wales; with a Sketch of the Laws by which they hiive been 

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1893. Appendix, pp. 115-120. 



A thorough review of the oyster regulations of Now South Wales from the earliest 

 .times qp to the year 1883, with suggestions as to methods of improving those regulations- 



