FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



to denote habitat, viii., 57; British 

 fishes enumerated and described, viii., 

 57-328; a class of vertebrate ani- 

 mals, x., 4; form of body, x., 4; 

 various kinds of scales, x., 4-5 ; 

 lateral line, x., 5 ; fins, their positions 

 and uses, x., 6-7; gill covers or 

 opercula, x., 7; gill opening, x., 

 7 ; branchiostegals, x., 7 ; gills or 

 branchiae, x., 8; gill rakers, x., 8; 

 pseudo-branchiae, x. , 8 ; degrees of 

 respiration in fish, x. , 9 ; comparative 

 tenacity of life in different kinds of 

 fish, x., 9, 10 ; organs of vision, x., 

 10 ; eyes of flat fishes, x., 11-14; 

 organs of hearing, x. , 14 ; of touch, 

 x., 15 ; of smell, x., 16 ; of taste, x., 

 16 ; teeth, x., 16 ; digestive organs, 

 x., 17; growth of fish, x., 18 ; intes- 

 tinal tract, x., 19 ; pyloric appen- 

 dages, x., 19; air bladder, x., 20; 

 forms and size of eggs, x., 21 ; 

 their impregnation, x., 22 ; mode of 

 deposition of eggs, x., 24-30; de- 

 velopment of the eggs, x. , 30-32 ; 

 natural enemies of sea fishes, x., 32- 

 35; food of fishes, x., 35-40; xi., 

 501-548; food localities, x., 36; 

 value of fish as food, x., 41-44; its 

 medicinal value in scrofulous diseases, 

 x., 45-47 ; causes which affect the 

 quality of the flesh of fish as an article 

 of diet, x., 48; pisciculture by the 

 Romans, x., 50-58 ; discussion on the 

 possibility of diminishing stock of fish 

 by reason of improvements in modes 

 of fishing, x., 70-76 ; causes of the 

 present high price of fish, x. , 76-82 ; 

 necessity for a more energetic prose- 

 cution of the fisheries, x., 80-82 ; 

 need of researches, under Government 

 control, into the natural history of sea 

 fishes, x., 82; various species de- 

 scribed, x., 82-416 ; modes of catch- 

 ing fish generally adopted, x., 420- 

 424 ; hindrances to natural reproduc- 

 tion, xi., 3; artificial propagation in 

 France, xi., 4; in Russia, xi., 5; 

 in the United States, xi., 5 ; in 

 Canada, xi. , 6 ; propagation of the 

 salmonidse, xi., 3-52; cultivation of 



freshwater fish, xi., 85-102 ; accli- 

 matisation of foreign fish, xi., 489- 

 497 ; discovery by the Americans of 

 a new fish the tile, xi., 547 ; influ- 

 ence of physical conditions of the sea 

 on their reproduction, growth, and 

 migrations, xi., 55 I- 568; similarity 

 of modes of capture in various coun- 

 tries, xiii., 4 



Fish and flesh, nitrogenous constituents 

 of, vii., 5 



"Fish as food" among the ancient 

 Egyptians, i. 375 ; among the He- 

 brews, i., 376; among the ancient 

 Assyrians, i., 377 ; among the ancient 

 Greeks, i., 378; among the ancient 

 Romans, i., 381, 411, 414; list of 

 works, &c. , in i6th and 1 7th centuries, 

 referring thereto, i., 457 ; prices of 

 among the Romans, i., 485 ; paper 

 thereon by Sir Henry Thompson, vii., 

 3 ; discussion on this paper, vii., 29 ; 

 its suitability as diet in decliningyears, 

 vii., 18; kinds available as food on 

 or near British shores, vii., 18-22 ; 

 its nutritive qualities analytically con- 

 sidered, viii., 4, 5, 9, 16 



Fish barrels, machinery for their con- 

 struction, xiii., 315 



Fish baskets of bamboo in Chinese sec- 

 tion of Exhibition, v., 173 



Fish breeding, fishermen's want of 

 knowledge of, iv., 107 



Fish commission transportation can, 

 ii., 83 



Fish Culture Association, reasons for 

 its institution, ii., 371 



Fish culture, definition of the term, ii., 

 3 ; hatching apparatus, ii., 26 ; rear- 

 ing and breeding establishments, ii., 

 26; in the United States, ii., 288; 

 vi., 60, 62,64, 66; xiii., 70-73, 161, 

 164; question of public or private 

 culture discussed, iv., 231, 235, 239; 

 when and by whom first attempted in 

 the United States, v., 12 ; improve- 

 ments in methods of, v., 15 ; public 

 fish culture must be on a large scale, 

 v- 5 65 ; government aid necessary, v., 

 65; vii., 84; fish culture in China, 

 v., 178; China in advance of other 



