314 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISIIERIKS. 



1865d—Buckland, Frank. Heaps ol' oyster sliclls. <^r!ic I'ield. I .middii. I'diiii- 

 aiy 4. 1X65. 

 llefers to provimus (ILsdibiition of oysters, as (l(;tenniiio(l by riMii;iiiiiiig .shell heaps. 

 1865 e — Buckland, Frauk. Young oysters. <;Timea, liondoii, Augu.st, 1865. 

 1865 f — Caird, James: Huxley, T. H. ; aud Lefevie, G. S. Report of the Com- 

 iiii-ssioners .\ppoiiited to Iii(|iiire into the Sea Fisheries of the United 

 Kingdom. Vol. II. Minute-s of Evidence and Index. London, Parlia- 

 mentary Paper, 18fi5, 4°, llOlt jij). 

 Sec 1861) b. 



1865 g — Clark, Hanry James. Miiul in Nature: or tiie Ori_i;;iu ol' l-il'e .■nid tlie Mode 

 of Dovelopuient of Animals. New Vori<, 18li5, H-, 'o2'2 pp. 

 The anatomy ami tlip biolojry of the oy,-;li-r arc disciissi'il on iip. l'.'9-203. 



1865 h — Grimshaw, T. W. Snpposed eases of iioisoniug by oysters. <^Medical 

 Press, Dnblin, October 2;"), 1865, vol. Liv, p. 372. 

 Cites an iustatice in which t hroo persons weie mado ill from t ho eatin<; of oy.sters. 



18651 — Randall, Alex. ()i>inion in Relation to Taking Oysters in the <Jhesa])ealve 

 liay and its Tributaries, to the (Jeneral Assembly of Maryland. Annap- 

 olis, 1865, 8>^, 8 pp. 



'rheo])inion of Iho altoriioygeueral of Maryland in reforouce to the authority of Iho 

 Slati' to I'cstiic t the takin;; of oysters to the citizeu.s thereof and to issue Hrenses therefor. 



1865J — Anonymous. Oyster ftirming. <^C()rnliin M.-iga/ine. London, .January, 

 18C.5, vol.xi, PP.52-G1. 



An exposition of the methods jHid results of oyster-culture on the western coast of 

 France and the soiitlurn roastof England, with valuable statistical data. 



1865 k — Buckland, Frank. Oyster-culture. <^Tlie Fisliernian's Magazine and 

 Review. London, October, 1865, vol. ii. pp. 470-17.3. 



An .abstract of address delivered at the thirty-tilth meeting of the British Association 

 for tlie Advancement of .Science. See IHGtwr. 



1866a — Buckland, Frank. Report on the cultivation of oystiTS hy natural ;ind 

 artihcial methods. <^Report of the thirty- tilth meetitigof the liritish Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science; held at Birnnnghani in Septem- 

 ber, 1865. London, 1866, pp. 3-15. 



This report of personal ohservations and experiments discusses tlu; following subjects: 

 (1) The cultivation of oysters by natur.al means. (2) Tlu' cuIti^ ation of oysters by artiti- 

 oial means. (3) Experiments in hatching oyster eggs by artificial heat. (1) Experiments 

 on a large scale ou the fore shores. (5) The chemical analysis of the oyster. (6) Dredg- 

 ing and its effects. (7) Comparisons of French and English systems of oyster-culture. 

 (8) Experiments in developing oyster-8i>at. (9) The c.ius(>s of greenness in oysters. 



1866 b — Caird, James; Huxley, T. H., and Lefevre, G. S. Report of the Commis- 

 sioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sea Fisheries of the United Kingdom. 

 Vol.1. The Re])orl, and Appendix. London. Parlinuient.'iry Paper. IStiG, 

 4°, cvii and 72 ]»p. One map. 



After making a very careful and exhaustive inquiry into the conditioi; of the oyster 

 industry of Great Britain, the commission summed up its observations as follows: 



" \Vt^ Hnd that the sni>p!y of oysters has very greatly fallen off ibu'ing tlie last tlirec or 

 four years. That this decrease has not arisen from overfishing, nor from any causes over 

 which man has dirert control, but from the very general failure of tlie sjial, or young of 

 the oyster, which a]>pears, during the year:«-in i|ueslion, to have been de.-troyed soon after 

 it was produced. A similar failure of spat has frequently happened before, and ]>robably 

 will often hajqien again. That the best mode of providing against these j'eriodical fail- 

 ures of the spat is to facilitate the procecidings of those individuals or conijiauies who maj* 

 desire to acquire so much property in favorably situated jiortions of the sea bottom as may 

 8U Oil o to enable them safely to invest cai)ital in preparing and preserving these jioi'tious 

 of the sea bottom for oystcT-culture. * * »• That no regulations or restrictions upon 

 oyster fishing, beyond such as may be needed for the object just defined, have had, or are 

 likely to have, any benelicial etVeet upon the sujqdy of the oj'Sters." J^ee !SG5/anil li-tiBc'. 



