of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
Hemidiscus cuneiformis, (15) 300. 
Hemilamprops assimilis, (4) 154. 
cristata, (4) 164. 
—— rosea, (4) 164; (15) 134; (17) 267; 
(19) 274 ; (20) 510, 513, 522. 
—— uniplicata, (4) 165; (15) 134. 
Hemimysis lamorne, (15) 133 ; (16) 158, 
162, 209 ; (17) 268. 
Hemirhombus aramaca, (18) 356. 
Henricia sanguinolenta, (15) 161; (20) 
310, 319, 324. 
Hensen, Professor V., (6) 304; (9) 177, 
407; (17) 100. . 
Herbertson, Mr A. J., (11) 20, 395; (13) 
15, 302. 
Herdman, Professor W. A., (7) 384; (8) 
362 ; (9) 392; (11) 492; (12) 387. 
Hermea bifida, (15) 117. 
Hermanella arenicola, (16) 270; (18) 399. 
——- rostrata, (12) 259. 
Hermaphroditism in a haddock, (9) 352. 
in the cod, (13) 297. 
Hermione hystrix, (15) 160. 
Herpetocypris reptans, (14) 239 ; (15) 318, 
321, 333 ; (16) 252; (17) 140, 159, 164, 
167, 168, 183. 
—— strigata, (15) 321; (16) 252; (17) 164, 
168, 183, 190. 
—— tumefacta, (14) 165; (17) 159, 164, 
183. 
Herring (Clupea harengus) (18) 288. 
acclimatised to fresh water, (4) 210. 
——-acclimatised to fresh water killed 
by sea-water, (4) 210. 
—— action of putrifying fish on move- 
ments of, (2) 66. 
action on deposited herring spawn, 
(18) 263. 
—— as bait, (7) 352, 356. 
—— attacked by squids, (3) 67. 
— ‘bank herring ” of Baltic, (17) 284. 
—— carbo-hydrates in liver of, (2) 38. 
caught in bag-nets fishing for sprats, 
(23) 157. 
in otter-trawl, (21) 65. 
in trawl-nets in deep water in 
North Sea, (19) 288. 
in deep water in Loch Fyne, 
(18) 253. 
— — characters of sexes of, (4) 93. 
—— close-time for, (4) 59. 
—— coast-, or spring-spawners, (17) 281. 
—— collection of statistics of, in Clyde, 
(4) 61. 
—— composition of, (5) 228. 
—— condition of ripe ovaries in, (4) 96. 
—— daylight fishing for, (4) 58. 
—— description of maties, (4) 75. 
—— destruction of, by gannets, (4) 58. 
—— —— of young of, in kui/ or bag-nets 
in Holland, (8) 366, 367. 
of young of, by bag-nets, (2) 
58; (4) 98; (23) 156. 
—— development of, (3) 32; (4) 31. 
—— —— of embryo of, (3) 44. 
—— devoured by skates, (4) 103. 
—— devours pelagic eggs, (17) 119. 
—— difference of larval, from larval 
sprat, (6) 304. 
digestibility of, (5) 228, 
214 
oe 
Herring, digestion in, (2) 36, 37. 
—— digestive organs of, (2) 33, 41. 
—— distinctions from sprat, (2) 48. 
distinctions from sprats 
young, (4) 100. 
——- distribution on bottom, (21) 65. 
—— eggs of, (3) 32, 35, 58; (16) 91. 
action of beam-trawl on, (3) 59. 
artificial fertilisation of, (2) 
68 ; (3) 36. 
——  -——— change of volume in, during 
maturation, (16) 141. 
—-— —— development of, 
water, (4) 43. 
devoured by cod, (4) 135. 
——— —— devoured by haddock, (4 133. 
—— —— duration of development of, 
(6) 306. 
—— —— size of, (4) 96. 
—— embryo of, (3) 47. 
——- enemies of, (4) 58; (18) 269. 
—— enquiry as to occurrence of ripe, in 
eastern part of North Sea, (9) 405. 
--— enquiry in Canada regarding the 
cure of, (8) 364. 
—— enquiry on action of seine-net in 
fishery for, (18) 243. 
—— fecundity of, (4) 95; (9) 267. 
~. — feeding in ripe condition, (4) 95. 
discrimination in, (4) 103. 
on fish-eggs, (4) 127. 
—— —— on herring eggs, (4) 127. 
— -— —— on sand-eels, (4) 127. 
—— —— on young herrings, (4) 126. 
—-— —— on young sprats, (4) 126. 
—— feeds chiefly between spawning 
periods, (4) 103. 
——— fins of, (5) 270; 272. 
—— Fishery Acts, review of, (18) 242. 
—-- fishery, disputes between seiners and 
drifters, (18) 246. 
—— —— in Firth of Clyde, method of 
fishing, (18) 249. 
—— —— in Loch Fyne, (4) 47; (18) 252. 
—— ——in Loch Fyne, statistics of, 
(18) 256. 
—— —— in Loch Fyne and Kilbrennan 
Sound, statistics of, (4) 56. 
—— — 1n Holland, (13) 340: 
——- —— in Sweden, (12) 396. 
——-——in Sweden, adoption 
Scottish methods in, (9) 408. 
regulations regarding use of 
seine in Loch Fyne, (18) 242. 
Royal Commission of enquiry 
as to use of seine, (18) 245. 
signs of the presence 
herrings, (18) 255. 
—— use of small-meshed nets in, 
(6) 295. 
—— food of, (2) 35; (4) 48, 102, 105; 
(6) 225, 228 ; (20) 487, 529. 
in Loch Fyne, (4) 125. 
—— —— on East Coast, (4) 127. 
—— —— on West Coast, (4) 128. 
—— —— young, (3) 50. 
——- functions of pyloric appendages in, 
(2)37- 
—— growth of, (3) 50; (5) 235; (14) 294 ; 
(23) 127. . 
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