INDEX. 



563 



Dole-fish, 128 



Doree, 103-108 ; rapid motion of fins, 106 ; fins capable of inflicting dangerous 



wounds, 1 06 



Dorsal fin, its position and uses, 8 



Dover, fisheries carried on there, 338 ; vessels employed, 338 

 Drift-net, 44 ; size of mesh, 45 ; of what material constructed, 45 ; how 



used, 45 ; its use in herring, mackerel, and pilchard fisheries, 346-348. 

 Drift-net fishing, laws by which it is regulated, 402 ; provisions of the 



International Convention of the Hague, 411 



EELS, not injuriously affected by sea water, 39 



Egyptian herring, a name given in Scotland to the saury, 242 



Electric light, fish not attracted by it, 38 

 ,, disturbances, their effect upon fish, 38 



Elleck or pine-leaved gurnard, 73, 74 



Embryology, its bearing on the study of natural history, 5 



Employers' Liability Act, 1 880, its applicability to crews of fishing vessels, 

 449 



England and Wales, &c., value of fisheries, number of vessels and men 

 employed, &c., 377 



Erythrinus sea-bream, 69 



Erythrism, 12 



Eyes, their position, 23, 24 ; size modified by habits and habitat, 24 ; atrophy, 

 24 ; deviations from ordinary type, 24 ; outer coverings, 25 ; " adipose 

 lids," 25 ; sometimes absent, 57 ; position in flat fishes, 180-184 : 

 modifications and means of protection in flat fishes, 186. 



FAIR MAIDS, a name given in Devonshire to dried pilchards, 286 



Fear, manifestations of, 32 



Ferrying, 371 ; danger attending it, 372 



Fertilisation of ova, 32, 34 



Field naturalist, subjects considered by him, 5 



Finnan haddocks (smoked haddocks), 141 



Fins, their arrangement and uses, 8 ; their composition in " bony" fishes, 8 ; 

 peculiar modifications, 9 ; sometimes used as organs of touch, 28 ; in 

 some fish inflict poisonous wounds, 32 



Fish, used by man as food from earliest times, 3 ; modes of capture adopted 

 by savages, 3 ; how defined, 7 ; divided into bony and cartilaginous 

 forms, 7 ; modifications of forms, 9 ; possess the senses of hearing, 22 ; 

 and of smell, 27 ; evidences of this, 22, 28 ; sense of taste very slightly 

 developed, 28 ; growth, how influenced, 29 ; voracity of fish, 29 ; modes 

 of seizing prey, 29 ; tenacity of life, 30 ; not very sensitive to pain, 30 ; 

 have means of intercommunication, 30 ; emit voluntary and involuntary 

 sounds, 31 ; instances of affection, 31 ; of anger, 31 ; of fear, 32 ; some- 

 times capable of inflicting poisonous wounds, 32 ; secrete venom, 32 ; 

 relations of the sexes, 32 ; modes of reproduction, 32-34 ; nests for 

 protection of ova, 35 ; time of spawning, 36 ; its effect on the value of 

 fish as food, 36 ; number of eggs produced by various species, 36 ; 

 hybridism, 36 ; eggs of fish kept in an aauarium frequently infertile, 36 ; 



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