ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



apprentices, viii., 338 ; a good natural 



harbour, ix., 41 

 Daumaun, a Portuguese settlement in 



India, ii., 451 

 Davidson, R., sea monster seen by, iii., 



417 



Davis, Rev. Father, promoter of loans 

 to fishermen, iv., 143 



Davis Straits, halibut fishery at, v., II 



Davits, form and other characteristics 

 of, vii., 211 



Davy, Dr. John, his researches as to 

 the value of fish as an article of diet, 

 x., 41-48 



Daw-fish, another name for one of the 

 dog-fishes, viii., 314 



Day, Dr. Francis, his paper on " Fish 

 Culture," ii., 1-118 ; on "Indian 

 Fish and Fishing," ii., 441-501 ; 

 remarks by him at conference on 

 the principles of fishery legislation, 

 iv., 107; his collections of Indian 

 and British fishes, iv., 420 ; reference 

 to his work on Indian Ichthyology, 

 iv., 420; v., 179; remarks by him 

 at conference on the herring fisheries 

 of Scotland, vi., 94 ; remarks respect- 

 ing mussel fisheries, vi., 318 ; paper 

 by him on " the Food of Fishes," vi., 

 267 ; remarks on Mr. Fryer's paper 

 on a " National Fisheries Society," 

 iv., 221-224 ; on advantages derived 

 from protection in the lobster fisheries, 

 v., 159 ; remarks at conference on 

 the cultivation of the salmonidae, vi., 

 57; his paper on "the Commercial 

 Sea- fishes of Great Britain," viii., 

 1-328 ; reference to his handbook on 

 the Indian fisheries, xiii., 14 ; con- 

 densed report on the natural history 

 of fishes and other aquatic animals, 

 xiii., 327-335 ; on the fisheries of 

 India, xiii., 345-352 



Deal, fishing port of, iv., 41 



Deal-fish, or Vaagmaer, i, 140 



Deaths on board boats, provisions of 

 Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, re- 

 specting, viii., 427 



Debes, Luke, his description of a mer- 

 maid, iii., 211 



Decapoda, iii., 334 



De Casa Laiglesia, His Excellency the 

 Marquis, presides at Conference on 

 the " Basis for legislation on Fishery 

 Questions," vii., 245 



De Caux, Mr., statistics by, respecting 

 the herring fishery, ii., 19 ; Prize 

 Essay on "Insurance for Fishermen," 

 ix., 116-137 



Deck lumber, vii., 21 1 



Dee, River, sport therein, ii., 366 



Deep-sea .adhesive eggs, apparatus for 

 hatching, iL, 88 ; floating eggs, ii., 

 88 



De Falbe, His Excellency M., Danish 

 Ambassador, presides at Conference 

 on "Forest protection, &c., on 

 Water Frontages," vii., 265-278 



Defence associations, ii., 371 



Deillion, a name given at Carnarvon to 

 the bib, viii., 148 



De la Court, his estimate of the 

 number of vessels engaged in the 

 Dutch herring fishery in his time, ix., 

 359 ; his opinion as to the injury 

 inflicted on the trade by the laws 

 then in force, ix., 365 



Delaware, the, shad and alewife fish- 

 eries, v. 40 ; crab fisheries, v. , 50 



Delaware, State of, statistics of fisheries, 

 v., 24, 25, 30, 38, 39, 41 



Deluge, distorted accounts of, iii., 188 ; 

 legends concerning it, iii., 189 



Demand for fish, increase of, iv., 5, 309 



Denes, size of mesh of herring-net used 

 at, iv., 312 



Denison (Alfred), work by, i., 3q8 ; 

 collection of works on fishing, iii., 

 537 



Denmark, salmon eggs exported to, v., 

 70 ; effect on fisheries of contiguity 

 of forests, vii., 269 ; North Sea 

 fisheries unimportant, viii., 342 ; 

 claim to exclusive fishing rights in 

 the northern seas, ix., 401, 424, 

 4 2 5> 437 > history of disputes with 

 the Dutch as to the right of fishing 

 in the open sea, ix., 475-482 ; num- 

 ber of persons and boats employed in 

 the fisheries, xiii., 80 ; value of the 

 various fisheries, xiii., 80 ; excellence 

 of the Danish fishing appliances, xiii., 



