342 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PISH AND FISHERIES. 



1887 j — Ganong, W. F. Tho marine mollusca of New Brunswick. ^Bulletin of the 

 Naliiral History Society of New Brunswick, Saint John, N. B., 1887, No. 

 VI, pp. 17-61. 

 Ecfors to the rojiioiis in which oj'sterfl are found in the Province of New Brunswick. 

 1887 k — Ingersoll, Ernest. Tho oyster industry. <^The Fisheries and Fishery 

 Industries of the United States. Washington, 1887. Sec. v, vol. ii, pp. 

 505-565. 



A modified reprint of " Tlie Oyster Industry," U. S. Fish Commission, "Washington, 1881. 

 4°, 252 pp. Sec 1881 e. 



1887 1 — Ninni, Alexander. Fish and oyster culture in the Province of Venice. 

 <^Bu]h'liii U. S. Fish Commission, 1886. Washington, 1887, vol. vi, pp. 

 177-186. 



Triinshited by Herman Jacobson from I'rogetti per estendere la pescicoltura ed intro- 

 durre la cocleocoltura nel fondo situato nei oomuni censuari di Lugugnana e Caorle in 

 Distretto di Portogrnaro, Provincia di Venozia. Rome, 1885. 



1887 m— Pike, R. G.; Hudson, W. M.,and Bill, J. A. Seventh Report of the Shell 

 Fish Commi.ssioners of the State of Connecticut, for the year ending 

 October 31, 1887. Middletown, Conn., 1887. 8°, 44 pp. 



Devoted principally to the procedures of tho Commissioners. From 1881 to 1886, inclu- 

 sive, the State revenue from the oyster industry was $77,331.67, and the disbursements 

 $07,773.51. 



1887n — Ryder, John A. A contribution to the life-history of the oyster (Osfrca 

 virginicaGvaclinand O. cduUsIAnu.). <^The Fisheries and Fishcrj- Indus- 

 tries of the United States. Washington, 1887. Sec. 1, vol. i, pp. 711-758, 

 plate 259. 



Discu.ises the following branches of the title subject: (1) The coarse .anatomy of the oyster; 

 (2) The minute anatomy of tho oyster; (3) Sox, sexual products, and diflforence of sexual 

 habits of the American and European oysters; (4) New methods of distinguishing the 

 sexes and of talcing the eggs of the oyster; (5) Kate of growth of 0»/reo t'irptnica; (6) The 

 food of the oyster; (7) On the cause of the green color of the oyster; (8) Local variations 

 in the form and habits of the oyster ; (9) The oyster-crab as a messmate and purveyor ; 

 (10) Physical and vital agencies destructive to oysters, and (11) Natur.al and artificial 

 oyster banks. See 1893 p. 



1887 o — Ryder, John A. An exposition of the principles of a rational system of 

 oyster culture, together with an account of a new and practical method of 

 obtaining oyster spat ;)n a scale of commercial importance. <^Report U. 

 S. Fish Commission, 1885. Washington, 1887, vol. xiii, pp. 381-424. 



Outlines a method by which "it is possible to certainly secure an abundance of spat 

 tinder conditions which can be controlled, and within such an area and at such a cost as 

 will render it possible for persons possessing the proper knowledge to undertake spat- 

 culture or the actual propagation of the oyster as a business." 



1887 p — Stearns, Silas. Some of the fisheries of western Florida. <;Bulletin U. 

 S. Fish Commission, 1886. Washington, 1887, vol. vi, pp. 465-467. 



Approximates the area of oyster beds on the west coast of Florida at 12,800 acres, and 

 the i)roduct in 1884 at 75,000 bushels, for which the fishermen received $45,000. 



1887 q— Worth, S. G. North Carolina encouragement to shell-fish culture. <^Tran8- 

 actions of the American Fisheries Society, sixteenth annual meeting. 

 New York, 1887, pp. 53-59. 



Reviews the history of the enactment of the North Carolina oyster-planting law of 1887, 

 and quotes that l.iw in its entirety. 



1887 r — Worth, S. G. North Carolina encouragement to shell-fish culture. <For- 

 est and Stream, New York, August 11, 1887, vol. xxix, pp. 50-51. 

 A reprint of 1887 q. 



