CONTENTS. 
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GENERAL STATEMENT, 3 
Trawling Investigations, . : : 3 6 
The Hatching and Rearing of Food Fishes, : ; 7 
Scientific and Technical Instruction to Fisher men, é 8 
Investigations on the Herring Fisheries of the Firth of ‘Clyde, : 10 
The Chemical Composition of the Herring, : ‘ : 12 
The Rate of Growth and the Age of Herrings, ; : : 12 
The Rate of Growth and the Age of Food Fishes, : : 13 
The Tay Sprat Fishery, 14 
The Specific Characters of certain Species of the Codfish Genus, 14 
The Otoliths or Earstones of Fishes, — . : : 15 
The Spawning and Fecundity of the Plaice, : 15 
The Spawning of the ies lacie and the Paternal Guardian- 
ship of the Eggs, . 16 
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 
I. Trawling Investigations. By Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, F.R.S.E., 
Superintendent of Scientific Investigations, : ai 
II. Observations on the Otoliths of some Teleostean Fishes. By 
Thomas Scott, LL.D., F.L.S. (Plates I.-V.), : , 48 
Preliminary Remarks, . ; : 48 
List of Fishes whose Otoliths are described, : F 52 
Systematic Description of the Otoliths, F ; 53 
Literature bearing on the Otoliths of Fishes, . , 80 
III. The Food Value of the Herring. By T. H. Milroy, M.D., 
B.Sce., F.R.S.E., Professor of BE stleeye pau s College, 
Belfast, ; 83 
Previous Analyses of Hagen : : ; 83 
Methods of Analysis, . ‘ ‘ ; 85 
ae of May Lochfyne Herrings, ‘ : : 86 
July Lochfyne Herrings, . ; : Nee 
September Lochfyne Herrings, . : 89 
October Lochfyne Herrings, ; : 89 
November Lochfyne Herrings, . : 92 
December Helmsdale Herrings,  . 2 93 
i Be Lochfyne Herrings, : : 94 
9 5 Lochboisdale Herrings, . s 95 
53 February Lochboisdale Hervings, : ; 96 
Tables of Ratios, P : : 97 
Summary of Results, . 101 
Remarks on Nutritive Value of Spent Herrings, with 
some additional Tables illustrating Differences in 
Composition of these Fish, ; ; . 0s 
