XXIII.-GENERAL INDEX. 



[For special index to the report of Professor Verrill on the marine invertebrates, see page 757. 

 Tliis should always be referred to in the search for auj* name, j 



Piige. 



Acanthias americanns 185 



Acantburus 801 



Achirus 794,823 



Acipenser 81'2, 826 



AcipenseridjB 790, 812 



Acipenseriuie 790 



Actiuocliir 799 



Act of Congress providing for a 



Commissioner of Fisheries xi 



^Inrichthys 811,826 



^tobatiua^ 790 



^Etobatis 812 



Agencies of decrease, disease, and 



atmospbere xxii 



human xxiii, xxxii 



blue-fish xxxii 



Agassiz, Prof. L xv 



AgooidiB 786,800 



Agoninte 786 



Agonus 



800 



Ahnfeltia plicata 290 



Aid rendered by Departments of the 



Government v 



Akulliakitsok 796,797 



Albicore 26,35,802 



.size of 26 



value 26, 35 



Albro, Samuel 8,182 



Albula 810 



Albulidai 789,810 



Alecrin 813 



Alewife 811,826 



Alg* 293 



Alewives, abundance of 



67 



movements of 35, 67 



economic A'alue, die ^67 



Allen,.!. A. P xii 



Alleterato -802 



Alopeciidaj 790, 813 



Alopias 813,827 



Alosa 811, 826 



Alutera 793,823 



American angler 792 



Amersulak 796 



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Ainmoccetes 814 



Ammodjtes 807,824 



Ammodytidffi 788,807 



Ammody toidea 788 



Ammodytinte 788 



Anarrhichas 798 



Anarrhichadidte 786, 798 



Anchovy 811,826 



Andrews, David 188 



Andrews, Sylvanus 41, 188 



Angel-fish 802, 807, 813, 827 



Anguilla 811,826 



Anguillidie 781,789 



Anisarchus 797 



Anisotremus 806 



Antennariidie 784,792 



Antennariime 784 



Antenuarioidea 784 



Apeltes.. 794,825 



Apogonichthys 807 



Apogouime 788 



Apparatus used in capturing fish .. 253 



Aprionodon 813 



Archagonus 800 



Arcbosargus 805 



Argeutiuin;e 789 



Arguments for regulating the fish- 

 eries xxxiv, 73 



Argyriosus 803 



Argyrotjenia 807 



Argyrotseninte 788 



Ariina; 789 



Ariopsis 811 



Arnold, Mr 11 



Aspidophoroides 80D 



Associates in the inquiry xv 



Asternopteryx 798 



Astroscopus 798 



Atherina 808 



Atberinidte 788,808 



Atmospheric agencies of decrease of 



fishes xxii 



Atwood, Capt. Nathaniel E.viii, 74, 117,223 



Aulostomoidea 784 



Aumsuog 811 



