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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Colchester oyster beds, scarcity of 

 oysters, iv., 100 ; Marquis of Exeter's 

 remarks on over-dredging, iv., 109 



Cold chambers, for fish preservation, 

 vii., 225 



Cold, its effect on congers, ii., 102 ; its 

 effect upon fish generally, viii., 

 38 



Cold season, cessation of feeding among 

 fish, vi. , 275 



Cold Springs Harbour, hatching sta- 

 tion, v., 67 



Cold storage (of fish) on sea and land, 

 vii., 225 



Coldingham, mussel fishery there, vi., 



309 

 Colemie, or Colmey, a local name for 



the coal-fish, viii., 154 

 Coleroon (India), instances of snakes 



lying in wait for fish, ii., 495 

 " Collectors " for oyster spat, need not 



be rough, v., 106 ; must be clean, v., 



107 ; those in ponds soon get covered 



with weeds, v., 107 

 Colle vegetale, statistics of production 



in Japan, v., 193 ; quantity exported 



thence to China, v., 198 

 Collieries, pollution of waters by, iv., 



275 



Collier's Poetical Decameron, i., 405 

 Collins, Mr. A. S., improved method 



of fish breeding, ii., 29 

 Collisions during fogs, iv., 402 

 Collisions of fishing gear, i., 18 

 Collooney fall, salmon ladder at, ii., 



276, 330 



Colmer, J. C. and Dimock, W. D., 

 joint report on the fishing industries 

 of Canada, xiii., 353-355 

 Colne river, parcelled out into subscrip- 

 tion waters, ii., 372 

 Colnett, Captain, mermaid incident, 



iii., 314 

 Colonial Exhibition, to be held in 1886, 



xiii., 269 



Colonial Museum, proposed establish- 

 ment of one in London, xiii., 269 

 Colouration of animals, ii., 145 

 Colours in fish, causes which produce 

 modifications in colour, vi., 279 ; 

 viii., IO 



Columbia, British. ee British Columbia. 



Columbia fish market, ix., 164 ; x., 79 ; 

 reason of its failure, x., 459 



Columbia River salmon fishery, ii., 9 ; 

 v., 19 ; statistics of, v., 33, 34 



Columbia River, salmon "canneries," 

 ii., 305 



Columbia salmon, transport of in a 

 frozen condition, v., 7 



Columella, his directions for the con- 

 struction and management of marine 

 fish-ponds, x., 50-58; xi., 257-259 



Combaconum, in Madras, tradition as 

 to origin of fishing castes, ii., 467 



Comber, or smooth serranus, its charac- 

 teristics, i., 86 



Commacchio eel-farm at the mouth of 

 the Po, Italy, ii., 257 ; iv., 7 



Commensals, a harmless external para- 

 site, vi., 278 ; viii., 41 



Commerce, its origin, viii., 4 



Common law rights of private owners 

 of fishings as to maintenance of 

 weirs and dams, i., 217 ; Scotch laws 

 as to freshwater fisheries, i., 235 ; as 

 to salmon fisheries, i., 236 



Common right of fishing in navigable 

 portions of tidal rivers : in the 

 Thames, i., 209 ; duties of river 

 conservators, i., 232, 233 



Communication with the shore by 

 vessels at sea, xiii., 298 



Comorin, Cape, " priestly chiefs " of 

 fishermen exercising control there, ii., 

 460 ; the effect of the salt tax upon 

 this region, ii., 463 



Comparative anatomy, its bearing on 

 the study of natural history, viii., 5 



Concarneau, zoological station at, iv., 

 427 



Conchoderma aurita, eared barnacles, 

 iii., 310 



Concrete, or beton, extensively used in 

 France, ix., 91 ; its increasing use in 

 England, ix., 96 ; methods of build- 

 ing with concrete, ix., 96, 97 ; its 

 composition, ix., 97 ; iron concrete, 

 ix., 98 ; asphaltic masonry and con- 

 crete, ix., 98, 99 



Condiments and herbs for flavouring 

 fish, vii., 28 



