OYSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY. 321 



1876 b— Francis, Francis. The breeding of the oyster. <The Field, London, 



November 18, 1876. 



1&76C— Francis, Francis. The breeding of the oyster. <The Field, Loudon, 

 December 2, 1876. 



1876 d— Hamilton, Lord Ciaud; Lefevre, G. Shaw; Stanhope, Edward (and 

 others). Report from the Select Committee ou Oyster Fisheries; together 

 with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, 

 and Index. House of Commons, Loudon, July 7, 1876. 4^^, xx + 334 pp. 

 This comiuitte« was appoiuted to inquire " the reasons for the preseut scarcity of oysters 

 on the British coasts." The report of the committee is briefly summed up as follows: 

 There are not, in consequence of the increasing demand and consequent high price, so 

 many full-grown oysters loft to spat as there ought to he, hence the scarcity. The paper 

 contains 3,941 questions and answers relative to oysters and the oyster industry of Great 

 Britain. 



1876 e— Kent, Saville. Reproduction of oysters. <The Field, London, April 22, 

 1876. 



1876 f— Lavoine, Napoleon. Oyster fishery in the G! ulf of St. Lawrence. <Report 

 of the Commissioner of Fisheries, for the year ending 31st December, 1875. 

 Ottawa, printed by Maclean, Rogers & Co., 1876, pp. 53-54. 

 A brief review of the condition of the industry in 1875. 



1876 g— Lockyer, J. N. Our oyster fisheries. <Nature, London, August 3, 1876, 

 vol. xiv, p. 285. 



lieviewH briefly the report of the British parliamentary "select committee on the oyster 

 fisheries" of 1876. 



1876h— Woods, W. Fell. The breeding of the oyster. <The Field, London, Novem- 

 ber 25, 1876. 



18761— Parliamentary paper. Report of Inspectors Appoiuted by the Board of 

 Trade, uuder the 45th Section of '-The SeaFi.sheries Act, 1868," to Inquire 

 into the State of the Fisheries Established under Orders made by the 

 Board, in Pursuance of part 3 of the Above Named Act. London, 1876. 



Describes the oyster fisheries of Blackwater (Essex), Bosham, Boston Deeps, Emsworth, 

 Emsworth Channel, Firth of Forth, Greshernish, Hamble, Holy Loch, Langston, Lynn 

 Deeps, Pagleshaiii, Roach Eiver, and Swansea. 



1876J Anouymou.?. Oysters: native and foreign. <VVhittalver'8Jotirnal of Amus- 

 ing and Instructive Literature, London, 1876. 



1876 k— Anonymous. The oyster. <Saturday Review, London, August 26, 1876, 



vol. XLii, pp. 260-261. 



Reviews and deprecates the necessity for the report of the "seloot committee on the 

 oyster fisheries " of 1876.- See 1876 d. 



1877 a— Bouchon-Brandely, G. Oyster Culture on the Shores of the Channel and 



of the Ocean. Parliamentary paper, Londou, 1877. 

 Translated from Journal offlciel de la R6publique Fran5ai8e, of January 22, 1877. 

 1877 b— Brooks, "W. K. The affinity of the Mollusca and Molluscoida. <Pro- 

 ceedings Boston Society of Natural History, February 2, 1876. Boston, 

 1877, vol. XVIII, pp. 225-236. 

 1877 c— Browne, Orris A. Report on the oyster beds of Virginia. <Annual Report 

 of the Fi.sh Commissioner of the St.ate of Virginia for the year 1877. 

 Richmond, 1877, 8°, pp. 26-43. 

 An abridgment of 1872 h. 

 1877 d— Dyer, W. T. Thiseltou. Greening of oysters. <Nature, London, Septem- 

 ber 6, 1877, vol. XVI, p. 397. 



Refers to the green color being particularly common in the oysters in the vicinity of 

 Croisic, and attributes it to certain diatoms iu the food of the oyster, especially Nociciila 

 futi/ormis GiTinow, var, ostrearia. 



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