of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
Masterman, Dr Arthur T., 172. 
Matthews, J. Duncan, 168, 173. 
Measurements of the lobster, 103. 
Megalops stage of lobster, 68. 
Methods adopted in hatching lobster, 65. 
Microcotyle donavani, 116. 
—— labracis, 117. 
Mill, Dr Hugh Robert, 171, 173. 
Milroy, Professor T. H., 173 
Moray Firth, trawling investigations in, 
13, 14, 26. 
Movements of larval lobster, 67. 
Murray, Dr George, 173. 
—— Mr J., 173. 
**Mysis” stage of lobster, 69. 
Natura history of the sprat and winter 
herring, notes on, 164. 
Nicothe astaci, 149. 
Norman, Rey. Canon A. M., 173. 
Notes on the natural history of the sprat 
and winter herring, 164. 
OPERATIONS at the Bay of Nigg hatchery, 
120. : 
Opercular bones, lines of growth in, 129. 
Ord of Caithness, trawling investigations 
off, 15, 37, 38. 
Otolith of cod, lines of growth in, 128. 
—— of fishes, lines of growth in, 126, 128. 
—— of herring, lines of growth in, 127. 
——-of plaice, lines of growth in, 126, 
133. 
PARASITE of ballan wrasse, 109, 116. 
of basse, 109, 117. 
—— of bib, 108, 113. 
—— of cod, 108. 
—— of common sole, 108. 
—-— of flounder, 108. 
—— of grey gurnard, 115, 116. 
—— of haddock, 108. 
—— of ling, 108. 
—— of lumpsucker, 108. 
—— of plaice, 108. 
—— of pollack, 108. 
—— of porbeagle shark, 112. 
—— of streaked gurnard, 115. 
—— of sturgeon, 110. 
— — of three-bearded rockling, 110. 
—— of whiting, 108. 
Parasites of fishes, 108. 
Pearcey, Frederick G., 173. 
Pectoral girdle, lines of growth in, 131. 
Penella fibrosa, 113. 
—— filosa, 113. 
orthagorisci, 113. 
Pennatula filosa, 113. 
Period of Tay sprat fishery, 161. 
Phyllocotyle gurnardi, 115. 
Plaice, albino, description of, 252. 
(Pleuronectes platessa), lines of 
growth in otoliths of, 126, 133. 
—— lines of growth in scales of, 125, 
— —- otoliths of, 126, 133. 
parasite of, 108. 
-—-— spawning of, in Dornoch Firth, 30, 
—— tenacity of life in, 252, 
Plectanocotyle lorenzii, 116. 
Pleuronectidz, zones of growth in the 
skeletal structures of, 125. 
257 
Pollack (Gadus pollachius), parasite of, 
108. 
Prince, Professor EK. E., 173. 
Proportion of berried hens in the catch 
ot lobsters, 88. 
Protozoéa stage of lobster, 68. 
Pseudocaligus brevipedis, 110. 
Pseudocyclopia giesbrechti, 141. 
RarLway ratesfor fish from Dundee, 161. 
Reibisch, Dr J., 125. 
Rockling, three - bearded (Onos tricir- 
ratus), parasite of, 110. 
SANDEMAN, George, 174. 
Sandside Bay, trawling investigations 
min, 15, Boy eve 
Scales of fishes, lines of growth in, 125, 
129. 
Scarcity of sprats in Tay, 156. 
Scientific papers in annual reports, list 
of, 166. 
Scott, Dr Thomas, 167, 169, 174. 
Senses of the lobster, 97. 
Shark, porbeagle (Lamna 
parasite of, 112. 
Size of the lobster before 
casting, 92. 
Skeletal structures of fishes, zones of 
growth in the, 125, 
Smith, Dr W. Ramsay, 175. 
—— W. Anderson, 175. 
Smith Bank, trawling investigations on, 
13, 22, 24, 31, 44, 48, 57. 
Soft lobster, characters of, 94. 
Sole, common (Solea vulgaris), parasite 
of, 108. 
Spawning cod, etc., in Dornoch Firth, 20. 
—— of cod in autumn in the North Sea, 
253. 
—— of lobsters, 100, 101. 
—— of plaice at hatchery, 120. 
Spheronella aore, 150. 
—— minuta, 149. 
-—— vararensis, 150. 
Sphyrion lumpi, 113, 114. 
Sprat and herring, destruction of, by 
bag-nets, 156. 
—— and winter herring, notes on natural 
history of, 164. 
—— fishing in Tay, 156, 163. 
—— —— in Tay, tides affecting, 163. 
—— --— in Tay, proportion of herrings 
taken in, 157. 
Sprats, low prices of, in Tay, 161. 
—— poor quality of, in Tay, 161. 
—— scarcity of, in Tay, 156. 
Statistics of Tay sprat fishery, 157. 
Stenhelia pygmac, 144. 
Steven, Dr J. Lindsay, 174. 
Stewart, Professor Charles Hunter, 175. 
Stirling, Professor William, 175. 
Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), parasite of, 
110. 
Sun-fish (Orthagoriscus mola), parasite of, 
113. 
cornubica), 
and after 
Tay sprat fishery, 156. 
—— —— fishery, period of, 161. 
—— sprat fishing grounds in, 163, 
