FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



81 ; the Greenland " Kajak," xiii., 

 81 ; condensed report on the fishing 

 industries of Denmark, xiii., 427-430 



Dens, Captain Magnus, statement by 

 him as to seizure of sailors by a huge 

 cuttle-fish, iii., 359 



Dentex, its characteristics, i., 88 



Denticete Cetacea, ii., 185 



Dentrice, their variable value, i., 397 



Dentriculi, i., 397 



De Piscatione, i., 405 



Derbio, or Glaucus mackerel, i., 116 



Derwent Angling Club, iii., 149 ; 



Derwent Valley Angling Association, 

 iii., 151 



Desertions, present state of law, viii., 



382-395 

 Desiccation, preservation of fish by 



this process, v., 8 

 De Thiersant, M. Dabry, work by him 



on Chinese fisheries, i., 534 

 "Deutschland," loss of the, vii., 200 

 Devil-fish, iv., no, in 

 Devonshire, angling in, ii., 396, 398 

 Devonshire coast, oldest known trawling 



grounds there, i., 273 

 Devonshire fishermen's fish diet, vii., 



12 



Diamond plaice, same as the plaice, 



viii., 204 

 Diana-fish, its characteristics described, 



i., "3 



Diatomacea, vi., 283, 299 



Diesing, on ligules, vi., 252 



Diet, daily regulation of, cannot be cal- 

 culated with scientific accuracy, i., 

 355 ; should correspond with mental 

 and physical occupations, vii., 15 



Digestion, influence of thought thereon, 



i-, 359 



Digestive organs in fish, x., 17 



Dilke, Sir C., his bill on " River Con- 

 servancy," iv., 291 



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

 joint report on fishing industries of 

 Canada, xiii., 353-355 



Dingle Bay, rendezvous of mackerel 

 boats, iv., 75 



Dinotherium, an extinct genus linking 

 the Manatidae to the pachyderms 

 (hippopotamus, tapir, etc.), iii., 22y 



Dip nets, ii., 456, 489 ; v., 174 



Dipnoi, or mud-fishes, ii., 169 



Disasters at sea, vii., 200-209 



Discoboli, a family of sucking-fishes 

 having the suctorial organ ventrally 

 developed, i., in ; anatomical details 

 of the family, i., 129-132 



Diseases of fish, ii., 97 ; viii., 54 ; crabs 

 and lobsters known as " pocked," due 

 to a peculiar cancerous ulceration, 

 unfit for food, vi., 368 



Dishes for cooking fish, vii., 26 



Disputes, &c., between fishermen might 

 be submitted to arbitration of com- 

 manders of cruisers, iv., 104, 105 



Distribution of sea fishes, improved 

 facilities for, Mr. Walsh's paper 

 thereon, vii., 117-137; discussion on 

 this subject, vii., 137-151 



District fishery boards, their constitu- 

 tion, by Acts passed in 1862 and 1868, 

 vi., 163, 167, 168 ; not appointed in 

 many localities in Scotland, vi., 190; 

 their comparative failure, vi., 191 



Diu, Island of, a Portuguese settlement, 

 large communities entirely supported 

 by the fisheries there, ii., 451 



Divers, a widely-distributed group of 

 aquatic birds, ii., 176 



Diving for fish in the Andaman islands, 

 ii., 458 



Divinities as fish and fishermen, iii., 6, 

 1 8, 19, 22, 31, 44, 50; Vishnu's 

 avatar, iii., 19, 21, 38; marine dei- 

 ties, iii., 19, 32, 62, 84 



Docking Channel, its whelk fishery, vi., 



303 



Dog-fishes, anatomical structure identi- 

 cal with that of larger sharks, i., 

 1 86 ; species inhabiting British seas, 

 i., 189-191 ; their destruction of 

 hooked cod-fish, i., 307 ; ii., 240 ; 

 their value as food, i., 425 ; iii., 28 ; 

 viii., 315, 317 ; their anatomy, ii., 

 158 ; power of inflicting serious 

 wounds with spines at the bases of 

 their fins, ii., 163 ; useful for the oil 

 and shagreen which they furnish, ii., 

 165 ; the black mouthed dog-fish 

 and rough-hound, iii., 28 ; their de- 

 struction beneficial to fisheries, iv., 



