of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
tale beccarit, (15) 167; (20) 497, 503, 
nitida, (8) 316; (15) 167. 
Rotalina inflata, (8) 315. 
ochracea, (8) 315. 
Rothesay Aquarium, (6) 16, 20. 
Rough hound. See Dog-fish, 
spotted. 
Roumania as a market for Scottish- 
cured herrings, (7) 164, 
Round fishes, fluctuations in abundance 
of, (14) 137, 140. 
growth of, compared with flat fishes, 
(20) 334. 
mature and immature, (8) 
numbers and sexes of, (8) 
spawning of, (8) 268. 
Royal Commission on Trawling, (14) 128. 
ot Fisheries in Italy, (6) 14. 
Ruff (Acerina vulgaris), spawning period 
of, (4) 244. 
Runcina coronata, (15) 116. 
Russia as a market for Scottish-cured 
herrings, (7) 167. 
fisheries of, (7) 408 ; (12) 404. 
fishery work in, (12) 404. 
Ryder, Professor J. A., (6) 302, 330. 
SS) 
lesser 
Sabella pavonia, (15) 158. 
penricillus, (15) 158. 
Sabellaria alveolata, (20) 312. 
Sabelliphilus sarsi, (12) 258. 
Saccamina sphera, (19) 236, 257. 
Sacculina carcini, (6) 236; (15) 156. 
triangularis, (6) 236. 
Sagitta as herring-food, (4) 126. 
distribution of, in Firth of Forth, 
(16) 190. 
parasites of, (14) 165. 
bipunctata, (15) 160, 306, 307, 309, 
311; (16) 190, 196, 207 210; (20), 
513, 516, 
Sagrina dimorpha, (16) 275. 
Sail-fluke. See Megrim. 
St. Andrews Bay, bye-law closing, 
against beam-trawling, (5) 44. 
larval fishes of, (8) 286, 287 ; (11) 
263 ; (12) 299, 301; (13) 260, 261, 264 ; 
(14) 225. 
migratory movements of gurnards 
in, (17) 215. 
pelagic and other fauna of, (6) 274. 
— pelagic eggs of fishes in, (8) 286, 
288 ;(9) 340; (11) 263; (12) 298, 299, 
301 ; (13) 260, 261, 264 ; (14) 225. 
fauna of, (15) 66. 
— physical observations in, in 1896, 
(15) 90. 
—— —— conditions of, (5) 54. 
—— post-larval fishes of, (8) 286, 287 ; 
(11) 263; (12) 299, 301; (13) 260, 261, 
264 ; (14) 225, 
—— trawling See 
** Garland.” 
—— —— stations in, (5) 55. 
—— young fishes of, (8) 286, 287; (11) 
263 ; (12) 299, 301 ; (13) 260, 261, 264 ; 
(14) 225. 
experiments in. 
235 
St. Andrews, Fishery Board’s Marine 
Laboratory at, report from (4) 201 ; (5) 
354 ; (6) 265, 279; (8) 8; (9) 6; (10) 7; 
(11) 8, 18. 
Saithe. See Coal-fish. 
Salenskya tuberosa, (20) 449, 474; (22) 
225. 
Salinity, effect of, on fish eggs, (5) 241. 
--— in relation to size of herring, (17) 
286. 
—— influence of, on variability, (18) 259. 
—— observations in Faeride-Shetland 
Channel, (15) 282. 
—— of Firth of Forth, (5) 350. 
Salmo fario. See Trout, common. 
—— fontinalis, spawning period of, (4) 
252. 
—— levenensis. See Loch Leven trout. 
—— salar. See Salmon. 
—— trutta. See Sea-trout. 
Salmon (Salmo salar), (18) 287. 
composition of flesh of, (5) 222, 228, 
229, 
—— digestibility of, (5) 228. 
—— disease, (4) 178. 
—— fecundity of, (9) 267. 
—— food of, (12) 292. 
—— parasites of, (18) 152, 172. 
Salmon, seasonal changes in viscera of, 
(12) 291. 
—-— spawning period of, (4) 252. 
—— of Rhine, spawning of, (6) 307. 
Salmon-trout. See Sea-trout. 
Salpa vulgaris, (15) 307, 310, 311. 
Samaris, (18) 361. 
Sand-eel embedded in liver of haddock, 
(3) 70. 
greater (Ammodytes 
(4) 233 ; (15) 112. 
—— —— eggs of, (9) 332. 
—— —— fecundity of, (9) 259. 
—— —— food of, (20) 487, 520. 
—— —-— mature and immature, (8) 177. 
——- —— spawning period of, (4) 249. 
—— lesser (Ammodyles tobianus), de- 
velopment of brain in, (13) 276. 
—— —— eggs of, (12) 313. 
—— —— fecundity of, (9) 259. 
—— —-- growth of, (12) 313, 
—— —— larve of, (12) 315. 
—— —— oviposition of, (12) 313. 
—-— —— reproduction of, (3) 66. 
—— -—— sexual proportions of, (10) 239. 
—-— —— spawning period of, (4) 249. 
Sand-eels as food for herring, (4) 127. 
— —.- egg and early stages of, (9) 331. 
—— post-larval forms, (7) 309. 
young of, (3) 66. 
Sandeman, Mr George, (11) 391, 392, 
393, 894 ; (12) 21, 291. 
Sanderson, Professor Burdon, (6) 279. 
Sand-fluke. See Megrim. 
Sand-smelt, See Smelt, sand-. 
Sandy ray. See Ray, cuckoo. 
Sapphirine gurnard. See 
sapphirine. 
Saprolegnia of salmon disease and allied 
forms, (7) 12, 368. 
Sarcina litoralis, (6) 204. 
—— ventricult, (6) 204. 
lanceolatus), 
Gurnard, 
