334 INDEX. 



Arctic seal-fishing, 157 

 Ardglass herring fisheries, 71, 137 

 Area of inland waters in Ireland, 81, 82 

 Argentine Republic, 160 



,, sealers, 163 

 Arklow herring fisheries, 76 

 Atlantic, seal-fishing, 158-169 



,, storn warning stations, 184 

 Australia, pollution of water by wool-washing, and purifying by forests, 



269 



Australian eucalypts, 273 



Austria, statistics relating to carp caught in, 83 

 Autumn fishing for seals, 158 

 " Avalanche," 200, 205 

 Aylesbury, 10 



,, Native Guano Co. 10, 37, 44, 56 



BACON, as food, 6, 12, 13 

 Bacteria, development of, 220, 221 

 ,, effect of oxygen on, 220 

 ,, effects of temperature on, 221-223 

 ,, experiment by Paul Bert, 220 

 ,, germs of, 225 

 ,, putrefaction caused by, 221, 227 

 " Bahama," loss of the, 208 

 Baird, Mr., President of United States fish commission, 82, 83, 102, 



144 



Baits, 287, 292, 293 

 Balbriggan herring fisheries, 76 

 Ballot, Professor Buys, law of storms, 181 

 Ballyshannon, railway rates for carriage of fish from, 85, 86 

 Baltimore fishery, prosperity of, 77 



,, necessity for pier or harbour at, 31, 135 



,, aid given by Lady Burdett Coutts towards improvement of 

 harbour of, 150 

 Banda Oriental, 160 

 Barking, fishing port of, 309 

 Barracouta, 30 



Barrels for stowing seal skins, 163 

 Basis for legislation on fishery questions, 243-261 

 Basque Provinces, parasites consumed in, 30 

 Basse, 21 

 Battersea, 55 

 Beam trawling, 305 

 Beech, 271 

 Beef-tea, 9 



Belgian fish-markets. See Fish-Markets. 

 Belgians as line-fishers, 284 



