55 8 INDEX. 



Merchant Shipping Act. See Acts of Parliament. 

 Meshes of nets, dimensions of, 223, 242 

 Meteorological Society of Scotland, 280 

 Method of fishing in frozen rivers, 504 

 Middleman, 60 



Migration and breeding of young fish, 226 

 Migratory fish, 229 

 Mill-dams, 217-219, 222 



,, weirs, 217-222 

 Miller's thumb, 97 

 Minnow, 168 

 Mirror carp, 202 



Mischief done by trawlers and seiners, 515 

 Modes of fishing, 12 

 Monk-fish, 192 

 Montgaudry, Baron de, 521 

 Moulin, M. du, 499 

 Movable nets, 254 

 Mud lamprey, 199 

 Mugilidse, 142 

 Mullet, 404, 425 

 Mullidse, 88 

 Muraena, 175 

 Muraenidae, 173 



Muscular power, source of, 349, 440 

 Mussel-bait, 314 

 Musselburgh, 282 

 Mussel fisheries, 246 

 Mussels, 13, 46, 62, 430 

 Myxine, 199 



NAVIGATION, hindrances to, 200 

 Net fishing, 227, 228 



,, dimensions of meshes, 224, 242 



,, prohibitions applicable to, 223, 224 



weekly close time, 228, 229 



NETS, 12, 13, 14, 40, 509, 510. See also Apparatus for Fishing. 

 ,, methods of using, 501, 502 

 ,, periodical renewal of, 263 

 Nevophth, tomb of, 471 

 Nile, 473 

 Nitrogen, 338 



,, number of grains of, in nitrogenous compounds, 354 

 Nitrogenous compounds in food, 356, 358, 360 



fish, 361 



Nordenskjold, Professor, 528 



Norfolk fisheries, regulated by special Board of Conservators, 224 

 North Sea beam-trawl fishing stations, 273 



