330 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1883 r — Huxley, Thomas H. Oysters and the oyster question. <^The English 

 IllustinttMl Mnuazinc, Loudou, October, 1883, and November, 1883, vol. i, 

 pp. 47-55, and pp. 112-121. 



A Icctnn- delivered at the lioyal Institution, London, on M.ay H, 1883, with additional 

 notes. Describes, in a popular manner, the minute anatomy .ind the biology of Ostrea edulis, 

 and reviews the oyster industry of Europe, with notes on the etliciency of certain regula- 

 tions. Concludes that the abundance or scarcity of oysters depends on causes that can 

 not be materially affected bj' i-estrictive legislation. All such legislation is in itself 

 objectionable, inasmuch as it creates new oflenses and tends to make the administration of 

 justice odious, and the burden of proof is .ilwoys on those who advocate it to show that its 

 utility is so great and nmuifest as to outweigh the inconvenience. 



1G83 s — Lockwood, Samuel. Natural hi.story of the oyster. .<^ American Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal, IJostou, .Tanuary, 1883, vol. iv, pp. 7-8. 



Abstract of a popular address delivered by the author before the Xew York Microscop- 

 ical Society, December l.'j, 1882. 



1883 1 — Lockyer, J. N. Oysters, oyster fishing, and oyster culture at the Fisheries 

 Exhiliilion. ^Nature, London, August 30, 1883, vol. xxviii, pp. 415-41G. 



Recites briefly the exhibits made in these lines by various countries at the London 

 risheries Exhibit, 1883. 



1883 u — Mobius, Karl. The oyster and oyster-culture. <]RoportU. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion, 1880. Washington, 1883, vol. viii, pp. 683-752. 



Translated by H. J. llice, from Die Auster und die Au.sternwirthachaft ; von Karl 

 Mobius, Berlin, 1877, 8-, 126 pp. Discusses the following branches of the subject, especial 

 reference being made to the SchleswigHolstein oysters: (1) The sea flats. (2) Oyster 

 banks and oystering. (3) The reproduction of the oyster. (4) Why oysters are not found 

 over all portions of the sea flats. (5) Artificial oyster-breeding in France. (6) Attempts 

 to introduce the French system of oyster-bnediug into Groat Britain. (7) Can the French 

 system of artificial oyster-breeding bo carried on in the waters of tlie German coast? (8) 

 Can natural oyster-beds be enlarged, and can new beds be formed, especially along the 

 Germ.an coast? (9) Growth and fecundity of the oyster. (10) An oyst«r-bed is a hioconoiie 

 or a social connnunity. (11) Concerning the increase in the price of oysters and in the 

 number of consumers, and the decrease in the number of oysters. (12) The chemical con- 

 .stituents and flavor of oysters. (13) The objects and results of oyster-culture. 



1883 V — Osborn, Henry L. The structure and growth of the shell of the oyster. 

 <^Studics from the Biological Society of Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, 1883, vol. II, pp. 427-432, with 1 plate. 



1883 w — Pike, R. G ; Hudson, "W. M., and "Woodniff, Geo. N. Second report of 

 the Shelllish Commissioners of the State of Conuocticnt. to the General 

 Assembly, January session, 1883, Middletown, Conn., 1883, 8", 44 pp., 1 

 map. 



A record of the proceedings of the Conunission in 1882, wth official designations of the 

 several natural oyster beds under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State, and the State 

 laws relating to shell fisheries enacted in 1882. The map shows the triangulation work 

 executed in 1882. 



1883 X — Rasch, H. H. On the reason for an extraordinarily rich production of 

 oysters in .a natural b:isin. <^Report U. S. Fish Commission, 1880. "Wash- 

 ington, 1883, vol. vni, pp. 1037-1014. 



Translated by Tarleton IT. Bean from Nordisk Tidsskrift for Fiskori, 1880, pp. 49-58. 



The natural basin consisted of a small lake situated a fewfeet higher than the open sea 

 close outside of it, and which could receive salt water from the sea only during severe 

 storms. 



1883 y — Renaud, J. An account of the Portuguese and French oysters {Ostrea 

 augiilataaud. Ostrea ediilis) cultivated in the Bay of Arcachon. <Report 

 U.S. Fish Commission, 1880. Washington, 1883, vol. viii, pp. 931-938. 



Tmnslatcd from Notice sur I'Huitre Portugaiso et Fran^aise c»iltiv6o dans la Bale 

 d'Arcachon, Arcachon, 1878, 4°, 33 pp. 



