NOTES ON OYSTEK CULTURE. 267 



Further information relative to these grants will be found in the Ecports to the Board 

 of Trade by their Inspectors 



Also in the appendices to the Eeport of the Select Commission of 1876, and in Returns 

 made to the House of Commons in 1872 (vol. liii, p. 891), 1880 (vol. Ixvii, p. 877), 1882 

 (vol. Ixiv, p. 179), and 1887 (vol. Ixxv, p. 853). Twenty-six Orders in all have been made 

 on behalf of oyster fisheries, of which nine have been revoked; of the existing seventeen, 

 seven are Eegulating Orders made to the corporations of six towns, the remainder grant 

 rights of several oyster fishery to individuals and companies on various parts of the coast. 

 The Reports of the Commission on Sea Fisheries of 1863 (pp. 82—105), and of the Select 

 Committee on Oyster Fisheries of 1876, are the two which deal with England. The latter 

 is full of valuable information on the subject. 



Is^ote. — The dotted line on the map (PL XXI) running across the Ooster Schcldo, from 

 Schouwen to Nord Beveland, marks approximately the limit reached by the water of the 

 upper part of the Schelde ou the ebb tide {cf. p. 257). 



