802 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Potomac Eiver, operations on 420 



Pound-net, first, from Scotland 768 



in tlie Penobscot 305 



Ponud-nets 17 



Powell, Mr 397 



Pratt, Dr. J. F 279 



Prelimiuiinary steps i 



Prescott,Dr 157,372 



Pi'esumpscot River 323, 621 



Prevost, Mr 485 



Procotyla fluviatilis 700 



Propagating new species of fish 509 



Propagation, artificial 24 



of California salmon., xxiii 



food-fislies xvi 



Maine salmon in 



1872 xviii 



Rhine salmon, 1872 xix 



shad in 1872 xvii 



1873 xxvi 



white-fish, 1872 xxvi 



Protection necessary Ixxxi 



Prudden, Mr. T. M 047,666 



Qnaunich or Kwannich 114 



Quatrefages, Prof. M. de . .xxxiii, 465, 479, 

 481, 485, 490, 529 



Qninnipaick River 326 



Radiata 705 



Railroad-facilities required for the 



transportation 448 



Rains, M:ij. G. I 107 



Ransom, Dr. W. H 29,30 



Rappahannock River 629 



Rasch, Prof 573, 576, 577 



Rectangular fish-way, common 611 



Red-char 110 



Redding, Hon. B. B xxi v, xxix, 211, 215. 206 



Red-fish 101 



Red horse 392 



Reed, Mr. Alfred A 226, 757 



Reid,Mr 437 



Remy, M. Joseph . .xxxii, 479, 484, 496, 533 



Report of Swedish fisheries 166 



Report of the Commissioner i 



Researches of other nations viii 



Reynolds, Mr. John P 391 



Rhine salmon, propagation of, in 1872 xix 



Rice, Prof iii 



Richard, Mr. J. H 117 



Richardson, Sir John . . .43,46, 49, 101, 106, 

 152, 359, 730, 732, 735 



Richelieu River 625 



Richmond's Island 324 



Rignolet,M 722 



Page. 



Rivie re, Baron de 478, 482 



Roanoke, fish in 401,406,419 



River 629 



Roberts, Mr. Samuel U 597, 605, 608 



Robinson, Mr. A.H Ixv 



Mr. C. L xlix 



Mr. Henry C 226 



& Hoyt 229 



Roccus chrysops 6, 63 



lineatus xxix, .553 



Rock-fish 410 



Rockwood.Mr. A. P 201 



Rogers, Mr. William 323 



Roosevelt, Mr xxiii 



Ross, Mr. B. R... 724 



Roujoux, M 722 



Rowley, Mr. C 410 



Royals River 323 



Rozy, Mr. Henry 723 



Rubber siphon for renewing the wa- 

 ter in cans 444 



Rufz de Lavisou 711,722 



Rules for transportation and intro- 

 duction of the gourami 727 



Rusconi, Mr 476 



Russell, M. F. W 226 



Russia, decrease of food-fishes in . . . 493 



price of spawn in 511 



progress in pisciculture in.. 493 



Russian method of fecundation 239 



Ryder, Mr. Benjamin 313 



Saco River 324 



and tributaries 621 



Sacramento River salmon, eggs of.. 173 



salmonidse 175, 179 



salmon, the Ixx, 373, 374 



abundance 185 



Sacramento salmon, answers to que- 

 ries by U. S. Fish Commissioner. . 184 

 Sacramento salmon, artificial cul- 

 ture 193 



Sacramento salmon, capture 194 



condition in dif- 

 ferent months 181 



diseases 194 



distribution... 184 

 economical val- 

 ue 195 



food 190 



general move- 

 ments of.... J 80, 181 



migrations 186 



parasites 194 



protection 193 



