ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



Ballisodare Falls, Lower, salmon ladder 

 at, ii., 328-331 



Ballot, Professor Buys, his law, vii., 181 



Bally shannon, freight of fish from that 

 port to London, iv., 370 



Baltic Sea, investigations there by 

 German Fishery Commission, iv., 

 9 ; absence of worms in the sea 

 bottom, vi., 277 ; comparative scar- 

 city of fish in this sea, xiii., 27 



Baloena mysticetus (Greenland whale), 

 explanation of " spouting," iii., 260 



Baltimore, a centre of the oyster fishery 

 in the United States, v., 19 



Baltimore (Ireland), prosperity of the 

 fishery, vii., 77 ; necessity for a pier 

 or harbour there, vii., 135 ; aid given 

 by Lady Burdett-Coutts towards im- 

 provement of harbour, vii., 150 



Bamboo, the, varied uses to which it is 

 put in China, v., 173, 174 ; manufac- 

 ture of paper from bamboo in Eng- 

 land, v., 1 86 



Banda Oriental, its participation in the 

 seal fishery, vii., 160 



Band fishes, i., 139 



Bangor, one of the principal fishing 

 ports on the Welsh coast, ix., 256 



Bank's oar-fish, i., 140 



Bar, the, a Canadian fish, v., 149 



Barbel, i., 168, 404, 432 ; vi., 22O, 

 275 ; their use in heraldry, iii., 66, 

 67, 69, 74 



Barbel fishing : Difference between 

 Thames and Trent fishing, iii., 454 ; 

 selection of swims, iii., 456 ; biting 

 and baiting, iii., 457 ; dodges in bar- 

 belling, iii., 458 ; baiting the swim, 

 iii., 459 ; various methods of fishing, 

 iii., 460 ; rods, iii., 461 ; winches, 

 iii., 462 ; lines and casting, iii., 463 ; 

 dressing for lines, iii., 465 ; colour 

 of gut bottoms, iii. , 465 ; fitting up 

 leger tackle, iii., 465 ; hooks, iii., 466 



Barbels, viii., 28 



Barber, Mr., of Mevagissey, his opinion 

 respecting the destruction among fish 

 caused by long-line fishing, vi., 289 



Barbules, x., 15 



Barking as a trawling station, i., 273 ; 

 iv., 56, 309 



Barling, another name for the lampern, 



viii., 324 



Barnacle geese, iii., 286, 317 

 Barnard, D., statistics furnished by him 



respecting the whelk fishery, vi., 304 

 Barneta (barnacle goose), iii., 289 

 Barnock, a name given on the east 



coast of Scotland to the turbot, 



viii., 193 

 Barnstable, a United States fishing 



port, v., 5 

 Barnstaple fisheries unimportant, viii., 



339 

 Barometrical depressions defined, vii., 



183 

 Barracouta, instances of negroes being 



poisoned by eating it, vii., 31 

 Barracouta, the, an Australian fish, 



cured for export, v., 320 

 Barrel of herrings, its contents and 



value, vi., 73 

 Barrington-Kennett, V. B., paper read 



by him, at Conferences, on "River 



Pollution," iv., 245-291 

 Barrow-in-Furness, i., 498 ; ix., 23 

 Bartlett, Mr., his testimony with regard 



to the "spouting" of whales, iii., 



261, 262 

 Barwin, a name given in co. Antrim 



(Ireland) to the common sea-bream, 



viii., 66 

 Basins or fjords on the west coast of 



Norway, v., 273 

 "Basis (the) for legislation on fishery 



questions," paper read at conference 



by Lt.-Col. Francisco Sola, vii., 243- 



261 

 Basking shark, i., 189 ; destruction 



caused by it to nets, xi., 122 ; its 



capture by means of the harpoon re- 

 commended, xi., 123 

 Basque provinces, manufacture of fish- 

 ing material, v., 361 ; consumption 



there of filariae, vi., 261 ; and of other 



fish parasites, vii., 30 

 Bass (the) i., 85, 425 ; its transport in 



America in a frozen condition, v., 7 ; 



anatomical details, viii., 58 ; x., 82 ; 



geographical distribution, viii., 60 ; 



x., 83 ; habits, x., 84 ; food, viii., 



58, 59 ; x. 84; spawning, viii., 60 ; 



