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GENERAL INDEX. 



Page. 



Mackerel-scad 803 



Mackerel-sliark 813 



Mackerel Cove 10 



Macrurida? 785, 7115 



Macrnioidea 785 



Macrunis 795 



Macy, Mr 7,9,30,47, 163 



Magnosa 813 



Malacosteus 809 



Malaga, fishing in 1831 and 1861 .... 212 



Mallotus 810 



Malthe 792 



Maltheidaj 784, 792 



Maltiiein.-e 784 



Man-eater 827 



Manta 812 



Marchaut, Seth 190 



Marden, William C 41 



Marketing of fish 217,218 



Marsipobranchii 791 



Martha's Vineyanl 191 



Masachnsetts, fisheries on the coast 117 

 in(]uiry as to decrease 



by viii 



Masticnra 790 



Matajnelo 804,810 



Maurolicus 810 



Measnres to promote increase of food- 



lishes sxxiii 



Megalops 810 



Melauogram rails 795, 284 



Melanospermea; 283, 284 



Melobesia membranacea 283 



fariuosa 288 



pn stulata 288 



polymorpha 294 



Memorial of citizens of Hyauuis to 



Congress 137 



Menenisha Bight 33, 35 



Menhaden 811,826 



Menhaden, distribution of 58 62 



size of... - 58,63 



abnndance of.ll, 19, 21,26, 33, 



40, 4-4, 46, 48, 49, 53, 58, 63, 69, 



70, 72. 176 



movements of. 29, 35, 44, 58, 63, 



68, 69 

 spawning of. . .21, 48, 58, 63, 68 



food of 58, 63 



economic value 11, 14, 17, 59, 63 



relationships of 58, 63, 68 



capture of 59, 63 



Menticirrns 805,824 



Merluciidaj 785, 796 



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Merluciinre 785 



'Merlucius 796,824 



Merritt, Henry 86 



Methuen, Mr 142 



Micristiua , 809 



Microgadus 795, 824 



Micropogon 805 



Microstoma 810 



MicrostomidiB 789, 810 



Micrustominte 789 



Middletou, Carman & Co 186 



Milner, J. W xii,xvii,264 



Misarkoruak 795, 796 



Miscellaneous correspondence, &c.. 135 



Misluiuammanquock 810 



Missuckeke-kequok 807 



Modes of capture 253 



Mola 792,823 



MolacauthiunB 784 



Molacanthus 792 



Molva , 796 



M(uuicanthintB 784 



Monk-fish 792,813,823 



Monomoy, weirs near 52 



Montank 60 



Moon-fish 807 



silver 802 



Morone 807,825 



Morrhiia pruinosa, (tom-cod) 273 



Morton, Thomas 154 



Moss-bunker 811 



Mouse-fish 792 



Mowry,Jabez W 109 



Mud-dab 794 



Mngil 808,825 



Mugilida^. 788,808 



Mugiloidea 788 



Mullet 808,825 



MullidiB 787, 804 



Mulloidea 787 



Mullus , 804 



Mummichog 809, 826 



Munnawhatteaug 811 



Muraenoides 797, 798, 824 



Murcielago 799 



Museums, specimens for xv 



facilities afforded officers 



of XV 



Mustelinas 790 



Mustelus 813,827 



Myliobatida? 790,812 



Myliobatinaj 790 



Myliobatis 812,826 



My liobatoidea 790 



