326 RErORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1880 t— Winslow, Francis. Extracts from report of investigations of the oyster 

 beds ill Tan.nit'i' and rocoinoko sounds and parts of the Chesapeake P>ay, 

 conducted dnriuf; portions of the years 1878 and 1879. ^Appendix to 

 Report of the Coniniissioners of Fisheries of Maryland, January, 1880, pp. 

 103-220. 

 A preliminary and abridged publication of 1882 j. 



1880 u — Anonymous. T]ie oyster season: An epicure analyzing the animal and 

 intellectual properties of the biv^alve. <The Sea World, New York, 

 September 14, 1880, vol. il. No. 5. 



1880 V — Anonymous. The oyster. <^Chamber8' Journal, Edinburgh, 1880, vol. 59, 

 pp. ,^)9 et seq. 



1880 w— Anonymous. Mine oyster. <;Tbe Sea World, New Haven, February 9, 



1880, vol. 1, No. 26. 

 A description of tlio oyster industry of Louisiana. 



1831a — Brady, Thomas P. Oyster Fisheries, Ireland. Digest of the Acts of Par- 

 liament and the By-Laws at Present in Force in Ireland for the Regulation 

 of the Oyster Fisheries, to which is added a List of the Licenses Granted 

 for Oyster Beds, an<l an Abstract of the Law Enabling Certain Persons to 

 Form or Plant Bait Beds. Dublin, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. 

 8°, 43 pp. 



1881b — Dickens, Charles (Editor). Something about oysters. <A1I the Year 

 Round, London, March 26, 1881, vol.46, pp. 534-537. 

 Discusses oysters gastronomieally. 



1881 c— Ferguson, T. B. The oyster. <Report of T. B. Ferguson, a Commissioner 



of Fisheries of Maryland, January, 1881. Hagerstown, 1881. pp. cv-cxiv. 

 Cites tho scientific investigatiosn that had been made toward the preservation of the 

 Maryland oyster industry. 



1881 d— Harding, Charles W. Prize Essay, National Fisheries Exhibition, Nor- 

 wich, 1881, on the Utilization of Localities in Norfolk and Suffolk suital)le 

 for the Cultivation of Mussels and other Shell Fish. Norwich, 1881. 4°, 

 4 pp. 



1881 e— Ingersoll, Ernest. The Oyster Industry. U. S. Fish Commission, Wash- 

 ington, 1881. 4°, 252 pp,, 22 plates. 



This paper, the most voluminous and comprehensive yet published relative to the oyster 

 industry of America, cont.iins a description of the industry in each of the United States, a 

 com]iilation of notes on the natural history of Ostrea vir.yiiUana, and a "glossary of 

 terms or oystoniian's dictionary." 



1881 f — Ryder, John A. An account of experiments in oyster culture and observa- 

 tions thereto, made at St. Jerome's Creek, Maryland, during the smnmer 

 of 1880. <[Appendix A to Report of a Commissioner of Fisheries of Mary- 

 land, January, 1881, Hagerstown, 1881. pp. 1-64. 



Discusses the anatomy and food of the oyster (Ostrea virginiana) and the fauna? of 

 oyster beds, and describes certain methodsfor breeding oysters in continemont. See 1884«. 



1881 g — Shanks, "W. F. G. Oysters and oyster culture. <Lippincott's Magazine, 

 Philadelphia, May, 1880, vol. xxvii, pp. 479-492. 



An important discussion of the oyster industry of the Atlantic coast of the United 

 States, with a review of the cultural methods employed in France. 



3881 h — Winslo-w, Francis. Deterioration of American oyster beds. <Popular 

 Science Monthly, New York, November and December, 1881, vol. xx, pp. 

 29-43 and 145-156. 



Discusses the deterioration of the reefs in the Chesapeake Bay, particularly those of 

 Tangier and Pocomoke sounds, and] suggests methods for restoring them to their former 

 condition of abundant ])roductivene9s. Tlie second chapter is devoted to the "natural 

 history of the oyster with especial reference to the process of reproduction and the con- 

 ditions influencing its rate of increase." 



