INDEX. 347 



Marston, Mr., 80 



Martin, Mr., remarks by, 170, 173 



Maternal instinct of seals, 164, 165 



Mauritius, flood and droughts in, 267 



Mayonnaise sauce, 13 



Meat as chief element of dietary should be avoided by persons of sedentary 



habits, 14 

 Mediterranean, bou or chalut worked by boats in the, 251 



fisheries, 246, 248, 258 



Melted butter sauce, 13 

 Menhaden (America) fishery, 103, 146] 

 Merchant Shipping Act, alteration of, in 1880, 325 

 Meshes of nets, size of, 157 

 Metal trays for packing-fish, 223, 224, 228 

 Metropolitan Board, 57, 60 

 Method of launching life-boats at sea, 212, 213 

 Methods of cooking, suggestions on, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 



,, fishing, opinions of Spanish fishermen on, 249, 250 



Middle-class dietary, 16 

 Migrating time, 157 

 Migratory species of fish, 246-247 

 Millar, Mr., fishery lessee, 41 



Milltown, Lord, Chairman of the Conference, 106-108, 148, 151 

 Mode and authority by which improved means of saving life at sea should be 



applied, 215, 216 



,, of capturing seals, 157, 158, 159, 162 

 " Mogul," loss of the, 213 



Money Point, necessity for harbour or pier at, 135 

 Mullet, grey, 20 



,, red, 8, 20 

 Murcia Valley, 267 

 Muscle or flesh, elements, 5 

 Mussel, 287 



NARRATIVES of disasters at sea, 200-209 



,, of the collision between the " Avalanche," and the " Forest," in 



the English Channel, 205 



,, of the loss of the " Birkenhead," at Simon's Bay, 203, 204 

 ,, of the loss of the cable steamship " La Plata" in the Bay of Biscay, 



204, 205 



,, of the loss of the " Teuton," 207, 208 

 Necessity of remedial measures for existing evils, 254 

 Nenagh, lake, 84 



Net-making, government aid for technical education in, 136 

 Nets, 157 



,, and other utensils used by Spanish fishermen, description of, 



249, 250 

 ,, description of, in use, for herring and mackerel fishing, 123-127 



