234 
Ray, thornback, parasites of, (18) 156, 
171 ; (19) 130, 150; (20) 299. 
i (21) 
230 ; (22) 28, 
“purses” of, (4) 212. 
size at maturity, (10) 238. 
Rays, relative number of sexes among, 
(21) 236. 
size of males and females, (21) 230. 
Rearing fish larvee, methods of, (15) 177. 
of larval and post-larval stages of 
the plaice, (15) 175. 
of young food-fishes, 
in, (13) 333. 
Red band fish (Cepola rubescens), 
280. 
“*Red cod,” nature of, (6) 10, 204, 207, 
organisms present in, (6) 204, 207. 
Red and pale muscles in fish, (4) 166. 
Regulation of fisheries, (11) 13 ; (18) 140. 
Reibisch, Dr J., (23) 125. 
Relation of size of mesh to the size of fish 
captured, (12) 306. 
Relative quantity of fish taken by line 
and by trawl, (6) 47; (7) 20; (12) 28. 
proportion of small fish captured by 
the ‘‘ Garland,” (6) 36. 
Remigulus tridens, (19) 251. 
Reophax deflugiformis, (16) 275 
findens, (8) 314. 
—— fusiformis, (8) 314; (1 
—— moniliforme, (16) 275. 
nodulosa, (8) 314. 
scorpiurus, (15) 166. 
scottit, (16) 275. 
Report on the apparatus required for 
carrying on physical observations in 
connection with the fisheries, (6) 309. 
from the Fishery Board’s inarine 
station at St. Andrews, (6) 265, &e. 
on the biological investigations 
carried out on board H.M.S. ‘‘ Jackal,” 
(6) 215. 
on physical and chemical examina- 
tion of the water in the Moray Firth, 
(6) 313. 
on physical observations bearing 
on the circulation of the water in; 
Loch Fyne, (5) 262. i 
on physical observations on the sea 
to the west of Lewis, (6) 349. 
Reproduction in diatoms, (15) 217. 
of fishes, (10) 18. 
of the eel, (13) 14, 192. 
Reproductive organs of fishes, weight of, 
(10) 241. 
‘* Research,” 
collected by, (15) 305. 
physical observations 
board of, (15) 280. 
report on phyto-plankton collected 
by, (15) 297. 
Respiration of teleostean embryo, (16) 
213. 
Retina of teleosteans, embryology of, 
(6) 280. 
Review of the trawling experiments of 
the ‘‘ Garland” in the Firth of Forth 
and St. Andrews Bay in the years 
1886-95, (14) 128. 
experiments 
(18) 
6) 275. 
made on 
H.M.S., animal plankton ! 
Part TT.—Twenty-third Annual Report 
Rhamphistoma. See Garfish. 
Rhina squatina. See Angel-fish. 
Rhincalanus gigas, (19) 236, 237; (20) 
450. 
Rhizosolenia alata, (15) 298, 300. 
pungens, (15) 214. 
semispina, (15) 300. 
—— setigera, (15) 214. 
shrubsolii, (15) 214. 
stolterfothii, (15) 214, 301. 
styliformis, (15) 298, 301. 
Rhizothrix curvata, (8) 319; (21 
Rhoda raschii, (20) 480. 
Rhodine lovéni, (15) 158. 
Rhombine, (18) 352, 357, 358. 
Rhomboidichthys, (18) 360. 
mancus, (18) 357. 
Rhombosolea, (18) 360. 
Rhombus levis. See Brill. 
meeoticus, (18) 357. 
—— maximus. See Turbot. 
—— norvegicus. See Topknot, Norway. 
Rhynchomyzon purpurocinctum, (17) 262; 
(18) 400; err 472. 
Richard, M. , (13) 16. 
Rigor mortis in fish and its relation to 
putrefaction, (6) 282. 
Rissoa parva, (15) 119. 
violacea, (15) 119. 
River-water, micro-organisms in, (3) 73 
(4) 176; (5) 331. 
Robb, Mr James, (20) 136. 
Robertson, Mr John, (9) 177. 
Roberisoni tenuis, (6) 239; (17) 254; (20) 
508, 517, 523. 
Roché, Dr, chief inspector of French 
fisheries, (13) 10, 16, 345. 
Rockling, five-bearded (Motella (Onos) 
mustela), (4) 233; (8) 357; (15) 111; 
(18) 284. 
» (9) 259. 
food of, (20) 519. 
growth of, (15) 208. 
—— post-larval and young, stages 
of, (15) 206. 
——— reproduction of, (3) 66. 
—— —— spawning period of, (4) 249. 
four-bearded (Motella (Onos) cim- 
bria), (4) 222; (8) 357: (18) 284. 
eggs of, (16) 91, 115. 
fecundity of, (9) 258. 
—— ——— food of, (21) 222. 
—— —— larval stages of, (8) 363. 
parasites of, (19) 122; (20) 289. 
three-bearded (Motella (Onos) 
tricirrata), (4) 224; (8) 3857; (18) 284. 
food of, (8) 255. 
—— —— parasites of, (20) 289, 291 ; 
110. 
spotted (Onos maculatus), (18) 284. 
Rocklings, eggs of, (7) 306; (8) 284; (14) 
223. 
) 123. 
(23) 
in Firth of Clyde, ( 
— larval, (8) 284. 
post-larval forms of, (7) 308. 
spawning period of, (17) 99. 
Roperia tessellata, (15) 214. 
Rosie, Mr D., (9) 177. 
Rossia macrosoma, (15) 115. 
oweni, (15) 115. 
15) 250. 
