VIII TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Eeply of Dr. Raphael Blanchaid 425 



Eeply of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Lilljeborg and Prof. Baroo Adolf E. Norden- 



skjold 428 



Reply of Dr. A. Th.Ton Middendorf 429 



Reply of Dr. Emil Holub 431 



Reply of Dr. Carlos Berg 433 



FOREIGN STATUTES. 



Falkland Islands 435 



New Zealand 436 



Canada 441 



Newfoundland 442 



Russia 445 



Uruguay 448 



Japan 449 



Great Britain and Canada 450 



A brief summary of the laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland and of the Dominion of Canada, relating to the protection 



of game, birds, and fishes 452 



Great Britain : 



Statutes relating to oyster fisheries of Ireland 457 



Statutes relating to Scotch herring fisheries 458 



Ceylon 461 



Regulations and ordinances of Ceylon 461 



For the protection of Her Majesty's rights in the digging of dead chanks 461 



For the protection of Her Majesty's chank fisheries 462 



An ordinance to declare illegal the possession of certain nets and instru- 

 ments within certain limits 464 



An ordinance relating to chanks 465 



Australia .• 467 



France 469 



Italy 470 



Norway 482 



Colombia 484 



Mexico 486 



HOVERING ACTS. 



Great Britain 493 



United States 494 



St. Helena Act 495 



Quarantine Act ok 1825 496 



OFFICIAL REPORTS. 



Report to Secretary of Treasury, by C. L. Hooper, captain, United States 



Revenue Marine 498 



Report of Johnstone H. Quinan, second lieutenant. United States Revenue 



Marine 504 



Report of Levi W. Myers, United States consul at Victoria, British Columbia 507 



Treasury List op Raids 519 



Claim of the North American Commercial Company 520 



Contract for pelagic catch 523 



