of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
239 ; (15) 320, 332 ; (16) 252, 260 ; (17) 
140, 145, 159, 164, 168, 173, 183. 
Atwater, Professor: Experiments on the 
digestibility and composition of fish, 
(5) 222. 
Atylus bispinosus, (6) 247. 
—— swammerdamit, (6) 247. 
—— vedlomensis, (7) 321. 
Aurelia aurita, (15) 136; (16) 210. 
Auriculina insculpta, (15) 121. 
——- obliqua, (15) 121. 
Austria as a market for Scottish-cured 
herrings, (7) 168. 
Autumn spawning of cod, (23) 253. 
Autonoe longipes, (14) 161 ; (20) 503. 
Axinus croulinensis, (15) 127. 
—— ferruginosus, (15) 127. 
—— flewuosus, (15) 127. 
Azevia, (18) 356. 
B 
Bacillus flavus gelatinosus, (6) 210. 
—— punctiformans, (6) 210. 
—— rubescens, (6) 205, 212. 
Bacteria, forms of, observed in river 
water, (4) 177, 183; (5) 331. 
—— in living fish, (6) 287. 
in water of Tay, (4) 187. 
Bacteriastrum delicatulum, (15) 298. 
varians, (15) 214. 
Bacterium innominatum, (6) 210. 
rubiginosum, (6) 208. 
Bag-net fishing, destruction of young 
fishes by, (4) 206 ; (8) 190; (23) 156. 
for sprats, (4) 205; (23) 161. 
Bag-nets, (10) 172; (23) 161. 
Bain, Mr Walter, (8) 23, 257; 
177 5 (AO) 23); (LL) 24: 
Baird, Professor Spencer, (5) 234; (6) 
14, 301. 
Bairdia complanata, (15) 142. 
inflata, (8) 321 ; (16) 263; (19) 256. 
Bait, annelids as, (6) 270. 
—— artificial, (7) 352, 353 ; (8) 362. 
Buccinum undatum as, (7) 347, 352, 
356. 
bullock’s liver as, (7) 354, 
clam as, (7) 352, 354, 356. 
cockle, (7) 328, 352, 354, 356. 
—— crabs as, (18) 140. 
cuttle-fish as, (7) 354. 
deficiency of, (6) 11, 12, 22. 
earthworms as, (7) 354, 356. 
enquiries into the supplies of, (7) 11. 
experiments on preserving mussels 
for (5) 358. 
experiments on the value of different 
baits, (7) 352. 
fisheries, (9) 17; (10) 16. 
—— Helix aspersa as, (7) 356. 
nemoralis as, (7) 356. 
—— herring as, (7) 352, 354, 356. 
limpet as, (7) 352, 354, 356. 
ling as, (7) 356. 
—— lugworm as, (7) 352, 354, 356. 
—— lumpsucker ova as, (6) 273. 
—— mussel as, (7) 354. 
—— mussels preserved in boracic acid 
as, (7) 354. 
(9) 21, 
181 
Bait, Nephrops norvegicus as, (7) 356. 
—— shell-fishes as, (4) 217 ; (6) 273. 
—— snails as, (7) 354. 
Solen siliqua as, (7) 352. 
—— squid as, (7) 352, 356. 
— whelk as (7) 354. 
Baited hooks, injuries to, (4) 203. 
Balani, (6) 262 ; (16) 201, 202, 208.; (20) 
Ooo: 
Balanoglossus, (7) 387. 
Balanus (Cypris stage), (20) 489, 492, 495, 
500, 501, 503, 505, 507, 511, 517, 520, 
521. 
balanoides, (6) 236, 251; (15) 155. 
crenatus, (6) 237 ; (15) 155. 
— hameri, (6) 237 ; (15) 155. 
—— porcatus, (6) 236 ; (15) 155. 
tintinnabulum, (6) 237. 
Ballan wrasse. See Wrasse, ballan. 
Ballantrae Bank, alleged injurious action 
of herring seine at, (18) 259. 
herring spawning ground at, 
(2) 65. 
as spawning ground for Loch 
Fyne herrings, (18) 253, 260. 
—— —— herring fishery, statistics of, 
(18) 261. 
herring fishing at, (4) 57. 
—— seine-net fishing at, (11) 5; (12) 18; 
(13) 13; (14) 14. 
Baltimore Fishery School, (6) 301. 
Barra, cockle-beds of, (8) 19. 
mackerel of, (12) 17; (13) 18. 
Barrett, Dr W. H., (3) 70. 
Basking shark. See Shark, basking. 
Bass (Labrax lupus), (6) 275 ; (21) 229; 
(23) 109, 117. 
spawning period of, (4) 244. 
Bateson, Mr W., (7) 385; (8) 362. 
Bathyporeia norvegica, (11) 213; 
259 ; (20) 477, 516, 535. 
—— pelagica (11) 213. 
—— pilosa, (6) 246 ; (11) 213. 
robertsonit, (11) 213; (15) 137. 
—— sp., (16) 210. 
Bay of Biscay, statistics of catches of 
trawler at, (20) 135. 
Beam-trawl, action of, on eggs of herrings, 
(3) 58. : 
efficiency of, compared with otter- 
trawl, (20) 118, 123, 124, 125; (21) 30. 
--— vitality of fish caught by, (8) 183. 
nets, new inventions, (7) 29. 
Beam-trawlers, fish landed by, (10) 13; 
Gn 22) Ise 
—— illegal operations of, (9) 3, 4, 6. 
statistics of, (9) 89; (12) 177. 
Beam-trawling. See also Trawling. 
(7) 2s (10) TO} 16} 18t 5 (LL) 9; TO: 
area of water closed to, (12) 8. 
capture of immature fish by, (8) 
179; (9) 29. 
— effect of, on eggs of fishes and 
young fishes, (12) 193. 
— effect of, on invertebrate fauna and 
fish-food, (12) 184. 
—— enquiry on influence of, (14) 10, 17. 
influence of, (15) 8; (8) 8; (12) 8. 
—— in Ireland, enquiry on, (8) 361. 
investigations of, (13) 11, 17. 
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