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1887 s— Toung, Archibald. The Salmon sea-trout, and oyster and mnssel fisheries 

 iu the Orkney and Shetland Islands. <Fifth Annual Report of the Fish- 

 ery Board for Scotland, being for the year 188(3. Edinburgh, Her Majesty's 

 Stationery Oflice, 1887. Appendix G, pp. 361-413. 



The oyster resources of the Orkney Islanda are described on pp. 37G-382, and of the 

 Shetland Islands on pp. 393-39.5. This paper contains an exhaustive review of the oyster 

 fishery in the Orkney lalaads since the beginning of the sixteenth century, the same 

 being written by Mr. W. G. T. Watt. 



1887t — Anonymous. The oyster problem : difficulties in the way of North Carolina 



planters. <The Sun, Baltimore, April 21, 1887. 

 1837 u — Anonymous. The New York Oyster Commission. <Fore8t and Stream, 



New York, July 28, 1877, vol. xxix, pp. 9-10. 



A review of the "Second Report of the Oyster Investigation and Survey of Oyster Ter- 

 ritory, for the years 1885 and 1886." Transmitted to the Legislature January 20, 1887. 



Albany, 1887. 4°, 47 pp., 1 map, 5 plates. See 1887 e. 

 1887 V— Anonymous. Oyster fishing : the industry in Rhode Island and how car- 

 ried on. <The Providence Journal, Providence, November 6, 1887. 

 A comprehensive description of the methods of growing oysters in Rhode Island waters. 

 1887 w— Anonymous. New York oyster franchises. <Forest and Stream, New 



York, November 17, 1887, vol. xxix, p. 329. 

 1887 X— Anonymous. French and Irish oysters. <The Fish Trades Gazette and 



Game and Poultry Trades Chronicle, London, February 5, 1887, vol. iv, 



No. 190. 

 1887y — Anonymous. Delaware Law. An act in Relation to Oysters. Passed at 



Dover, March 28, 1887. Dover, Delawarean Print, 1887. i°, 10 pp. 



1887 a— Seed, "William. Fish-culture in New Zealand. <Bulletin U. S. Fish Cora- 

 mission, 1886. Washington, 1887, vol. VI, pp. 213-216. 



Refers to the regulations governing the oyster fishery of New Zealand and estimatOB 

 the extent of the product. 



1887 aa— Ryder, John A. On a tumor in the Oyster. <Proceedings of the Acad- 



emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1877, pp. 25-27. 



1888 a— Atwater, W. O. Oysters as food. <Report of the Oyster Investigation and 



Shell I'ish Commission, for the year ending November 30, 1887. Appendix 

 A, pp. 53-78. Albany, 1888. 

 A continuation of 1883 c and 1885 a. 



1888 b— Atwater, "W. O. Fattening of oysters. <Report of the Oyster Investi- 

 gation and Shell Fish Commission for the year ending November 30, 1887. 

 Appendix B, pp. 79-92. Albany, 1888. 



Reprinted from Transactions of the American Fishcrii'S Society, sixteenth annual 

 meeting. New York, 1887, pp. 37-ri2. 



1888c— Bertram, James G. Oyster-growing in England, France, and America. 

 <National Review, London, September, 1888, vol. xii, pp. 102-114. 



1888 d— Blackford, Eugene Gr. Report of the Oyster Investigation and Shell 

 Fish Commission, for the year ending November 30, 1887. Transmitted 

 to the Legislature January 25, 1888. Albany, 1888. 8°, 106 pp. 



This, the third and final report on oyster iuvestigation authorized by the General Assem- 

 bly of New York, discusses on pp. 1-52 the dapletion of the public beds of that State .and 

 the necessity for private culture; also the pollution of the water contiguous to the oyster 

 beds by refuse from oil refineries and similar establishments. The .appendix contains the 

 vState shellfish enactments of 1887. 



1888 e— De Salis, Harriet A. Oysters a la Mode ; or, the Oyster and over 100 Ways 

 of Cooking it, to which are added a few Receipts for Cooking all kinds of 

 Shellfish. London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1888. 12°, 68 

 pp. 

 CoBtkina 112 recii>M for cooking oysters. 



