334 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1884 i — Greene, Albert R. Shell fisheries of Rhode Island : public heariiio- by the 

 .ioiiit special roiiimittee of the general assembly. < Providence Journal, 

 Providence, Rhode Island, March 5, 1891. 



1884 j — Hoek, P. P. C. Oyster Culture. Prize essay issued in connectiou w ith 

 the (ireat International Fisheries Exhibition. London, Clowes & Sons, 

 1881, 3G pp., 3 plates. 



1884 k — Hovey, Horace C. Oyster fanning in Connecticut. <^Proceeding8 of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, thirty-second 

 annual meeting, held at Minneapolis, August, 1883. New York, 1884, pp. 

 400-466. 



1884 1 — Hudson, William M. Tlie shell fisheries of Connecticut. <Tratt8action8 

 of the Fish-Cultural Association, thirteenth annual meeting. New York, 

 1884, pp. 121-146. 



Considers the relations existing liutwcen the Slate .lud the public aiul private oyster 

 areas in Long Island Sound within the boundaries of Connecticut, witli" especial refer- 

 ence to leoislation aflecting the oyster industry. 



1884 m — Lockwood, Samuel. An oyster on a crab. <^Anierican Naturalist, Phila- 

 delphia, February, 1884, vol. xviii, p. 200. 



Describes a female Cancer irroratus (Say), one-fourth full-grown, and with the caudal 

 flaps didteuded with eggs, carrying attached to the right side of its carapace an oyster 2i 

 inches in length and 2 inches in width. 



1884 n— Pike, R. G. ; Hudson, W. M., and Woodruff, G. N. Third Report of the 

 Shell Fish Commissioners of the State of Connecticut to the General 

 Assembly, January session, 1884. Middletown, Conn., 1884. 8°, 40 pp. 

 Contains the official designation of the natural beds under the exclusive jurisdiction 

 of the State, and refers to the general condition of the oyster industry of Connecticut 

 in 1883. 

 1884 o — Puysegur, M. On the cause of the greening of oysters. With a supple- 

 mentary note on the coloration of the blood corpuscles of the oyster, by 

 John A. Ryder. <Report U. S. Fish Commission, 1882. Washington, 

 1884, vol. X, pp. 793-805. 



Also reviews much of the existing literature relative to this subject. This first part of 

 this article is translated from Xotice sur la Cause du Verdissement des Huitres. Paris, 

 Ber-er-Levrault et Cie, 1880. 8°, 11 pp., 1 jdate. 



1884 p— Rumpff, Carl. The oyster as a popular article of food in North America. 



<15ulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. Washington, 1884, vol. iv, pp. 



356-358. 

 Translated by Herm.in Jacobson from Circular No. 3, 1884, of the German ri.«hery 



Association, Berlin, April 4, 1884. 

 1884 q — Ryder, John A. On a new form of filter or diaphragm to be used in the 



culture of oysters in ponds. <Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. 



Washington, 1884, vol. iv, pp. 17-31. 



The filter described consists of barriers of sand confined between gunny clotli and 

 galvanized wire cloth, which works quite successfully. This article also describes the 

 methods of constructing the oyster ponds or claires. 



1884 r — Ryder, John A. Journal of operations on the grounds of the Eastern 

 Shore Oyster Company, on Chincoteague Bay, near Stockton, Md., during 

 the summer of 1883. <Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1884. Wash- 

 ington, 1884, vol. IV, pp. 43-47. • 



This journal contains a daily record of the work, the results of which were published 

 in Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, 1883, vol. in, pp. 281-294, in a paper entitled 

 "Bearing oysters from artificially fertilized eggs, together with notes on pond culture." 

 See 1883 ay. 



