306 Ri:roRT ok tiik co:\rMissioNER of fish and ftshkries. 



Tlic piopaiivtioii of a coiiiplcto bil)!i<)^rai)liy of oysters and the oyster 

 industries was originally contemplated, but the facilities for examining 

 many publications in foreign languages are so unsatisfactory that the 

 present pajxH' lias been restricted to works in the English language. 

 It is recognized that such a bibliograi)hy must necessarily omit refer- 

 ence to some foreign publications of value. The num])er of these, 

 however, is much reduced by the enterprise of American scientists and 

 economists in causing most of the imporiant foreign publieati()ns to be 

 translated into I'^^nglish. Among the; valuable foreign leports which 

 have been translated may be mentioned Voyage d'Ex])loration sur le 

 Littoral de la Frame et de I'ltalie, by elean Jacques Coste (Paris, 18(11, 

 4°, 297 pp.), translated in the Report of the K. S. Fish Commission for 

 1880; T^Uude sur riiulustrie Iluitriere des Krats-rnis. by I*. De Broca 

 (Paris, 1805,12°, 2()0 i>p.), translated in the Report (jf the V. S. Fish 

 Commission for 187^J-74 and 1874-75; and Die Auster uud die Austern- 

 wirthscliaft, by Ivarl Mobius (Berlin, 1877, 8'^, 120 ])\).). translated in 

 thelieportof thelJ. S. Fish (Commission for 1880. 



There are, however, several important reports on the anatonjy and 

 biology of the oyster that have not yet been translated into English. 

 Among these are several of the i»ublicati(>ns of the Nederlandsche 

 Dierkundige Vereeniging from 1881 to 1885. Tiie prominent i)ioneer 

 works on the developnient of the oyster by Davaine* and Laca/.e- 

 Duthierst are also without English translations. 



It is not within the sco[)e of the piesent comi)ilati»>n to refer to 

 pa])ers dealing only with the nomenclature and classitii-ation of oysters, 

 or to encyclopedia articles. Omission has also been made of a very 

 extensive repository of infornmtion relative to regulations governing 

 tlu> oyster industries, viz, the session acts of various legislative bodies. 



The bibliography here presented contains references to 540 separate 

 publications, the work of over 278 authors. Of these papers, 201 weie 

 issued in the United States, 20 in Canada, 170 in England, 25 in t^cot- 

 land, 10 in Ireland, and 115 in various other countries. Of the American 

 publications, 7.') were issued by the F. S. l^^ish Commission, of which 25 

 were translations and 48 original articles. 



Brief abstracts of impcntant or interesting statements in many of 

 the papers are given, in order to increase the usefulness of the paper. 



The compilation is accompanied by a subject index and an author's 

 index to facilitate the iinding of references to works on various subjects 

 and the papers of individual writers. 



*C. Davaine: Rccherches sur la G<5n<iration des Huitres, in Comiites Rendns and 

 Mom. de la Sor. de Riolonfie, Paris, vol. iv, 185^, pp. 2i)5-33{), with '2 plates. 



t H. Do Lacaze-Dntliiers: M('inoire sur lo 1 >("V<3loi)])euiciit des Ac^pliales Lanielli- 

 l)ranolie8(08tiea), iu f'oniptos Ivoudus dol'Aoad. des .Sc. Paris, vol. xxxix, i)p. lOoef 

 Hiq. Also, Xouvollos Obsorvatious sur lo Dovolopptuucnt dos lluitre.s, in Coinjjtos 

 Rcudus de I'Acad. des 80. I'aris, vol. xxxix, pp. 11!»7 <t xeq., etc. 



