GENERAL INDEX. 



847 



Page. 

 Ponnd-uet at Wood's Hole, Mass. . . 262 

 Pound-uets on south side New Eng- 

 land, location of XXV 



Pound-rent suggested 36 



Pounds 259,262 



Powel, Samuel ix, x, xvi,9, 73, 125 



Predaceous fishes, ravages of xxii 



Preliminaries to inquiries by United 



States vii 



Priacanthida? 788,807 



Priacanthoidea 788 



Priacauthus 807 



Priouotus 799,824 



Pristidie 790,812 



Pristipomatidse 788, 806 



Pristipomatinte 788 



Pristis 812 



Prohibition of fixed apjiaratus xxxv 



Projectiles for capturing fish 253 



list of patented 277 



Promicropfcerus 806 



Providence River 19 



Pseudopleuronectes 794, 823 



Pseudopri acanthus 807 



Pteraclinina} 787 



Pteraclis 804 



Pterophryne 792 



Pteroplatea 812, 826 



PteroplateinjB 790 



Ptilota elegans 291 



Puckermouth, abundance of 11 



economic value 8 



Puffer 793 



Punctaria tenuissima 285 



plantaginea 285 



Pygosteus 794, 826 



Q. 



Questions relative to the food-fishes 3 



Quick's Hole 33,35 



E. 



Rabbit-fish 793 



Eaia 812 



Raiaidai 790,812 



RaianjB 790 



Eaiaoidae 790 



Raia3 790 



Ralfsia verrucosa 293 



Rays, abundance of 70 



Ray, butterfly 826 



cow-nosed 812 



clear-nosed 812 



sharp-nosed 812 



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Ray, sharp-headed 826 



sting 826 



Razor-fish 801 



Read, A 



Record, Mr. Wm 28,31 



Red-flsh 801,805 



Red-grouper 806 



Reed, Mr 125, 191 



Reels, list of patented 276 



Regulation for use of stationary ap- 

 paratus xxxiiil, 32 



Reinhardtius 795 



Remembrancer, the (London, 1776) 172 



Remoropsis 808, 824 



Reniceps 813 



Report of Rhode Island committee, 104 



State commissions 104 



Researches plan of xiii 



of associates xvii 



Result of inquiries in 1872 xxxvi 



Results, summary of xvii, xxxviii 



Rhinie 790 



Rhinesomus 793 



Rhinonemus 796 



Rhinoptera 812, 826 



Rhode Island, act recommended . .. 110 

 committee, report of . 104 



inquiries by viii 



legislature, pleadings 

 before the Senate 



committee 196 



Rhodoraelacea; 286 



Rliodomela subfusca 286 



Rhodospermeaj 283, 286 



Rbodymeniacea> 290 



Rhodymenia palmata 290 



Rhombinae 785 



Rhombochirns 808,824 



Rhypticinne 788 



Rider, S. S 72 



Rights under the charter and Con- 

 stitution 219 



Rimbaud, Mr. J. B 211 



EivulariacesB 293 



Rivularia atra 293 



Roach 805 



Robinson's Hole 33 



Roccus 807,825 



Rock-fish 807,825 



Rockling, 3,4,5 796 



Rock-bass, abundance of 39, 50 



Rock-eel 824 



Rockwell, Mr. H. E xiv, 7 



Rods, list of patented 276 



