XXXIV.—RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATIONS RELATIVE TO THE 
OYSTER AND ITS CULTIVATION AT THE END OF THE FIRST 
YEAR OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS.* 
[Appendix to the Sixth Annual Report of the Zoological Station of the Netherlands 
Zoological Association. ] t 
LEIDEN, 1881. 
The review (catalogue raisonné) of the literature of the oyster, referred 
to in our report, was completed during the month of June. It is in- 
tended to form the first part of the final report on the investigations 
relative to the oyster, but on account of its size (104 pp. 8vo, close 
print) it has been thought best not to embody it in this appendix. 
The table of contents of this review, which has not been given to the 
book-trade, is as follows: 
Introduction. 
The *“* Ancients” on the oyster. 
Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) on the oyster. 
A. Works of a purely scientific character : 
I. Systematic study of the oyster, and its geographical distribu- 
tion. 
If. General anatomy and physiology of the oyster. 
Iii. Anatomy and physiology of the generative organs of the oyster, 
IV. History of the growth and development of the oyster. 
B. Works relating to the general natural history, fishing, cultivation, &e., 
of the oyster: 
I. Works which donot exclusively relate to onecountry or locality. 
II. Works relating to the oyster-fisheries and the cultivation of 
the oyster in the Netherlands. 
Ill. Works relating to the oyster-fisheries and the cultivation of 
the oyster in Belgium. 
IV. Works relating to the oyster-fisheries and the cultivation of 
the oyster in France. 
V. Works relating to the oyster-fisheries and the cultivation of 
the oyster in Great Britain and Ireland. 
VI. Works relating to the oyster-fisheries and the cultivation of 
the oyster on the German coasts of the North Sea. 
*“ Overzicht van den stand van het onderzock de oester en haar cultuur betreffende aan het 
einde van het eerste onderzoekingsjaar.”—Translated from Dutch by HERMAN JACOBSON, 
t Zesde Jaarverslag | omtrent het | zodlogisch station | der | Nederlandsche | Dierkundige 
Vereeniging, | uitgebracht door de Commissie voor het zodlogisch station, | op de Vergadering 
van 10 December, 1881. | 
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