ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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xiii., 96 ; success of the oyster cul- 

 ture, xiii., 96-98 ; value of the various 

 fisheries, xiii., 99, no; condensed 

 report on the fishing industries of 

 this country, xiii., 483-487. See also 

 Dutch Sea Fisheries. 



Hollandaise sauce, the composition of, 

 vii., 13 



Holmwood, Francis, condensed report 

 by him on the fishing industries of 

 Zanzibar, xiii., 530-536 



Holocephala. See Marine and Fresh- 

 water Fishes of the British Islands. 



Holton hatching box. See Hatching 

 Boxes. 



Home Drummond's Act (Salmon 

 Fisheries), viii., 490 



Home, Mr. Milne, his paper upon 

 " Salmon and Salmon fisheries," vi., 

 147-172, 183-204; remarks by, on 

 the artificial hatching of fish, vi., 181 ; 

 on the ill effects on the health of 

 fish of sewage in rivers, vii., 58; 

 on the value of storm warnings to 

 Scotch fishermen, vii., 191 



Home Office, superintendence of 

 salmon fisheries vested in, i., 220, 

 221, 229, 230, 236, 237 



Honeyman, Professor, remarks by, on 

 fish parasites, vi., 21 



Hooded seal. See Seal Fisheries. 



" Hookers," a name given by the Dutch 

 to vessels engaged in the cod fishery, 

 iv., 46; vii. 285; ix., 431 



Hook and line fishing, its antiquity, 

 xiii., 4 ; materials used for hooks and 

 lines in early times, and among 

 savages at the present day, xiii., 4, 



5 ; materials used in construction of 

 lines among civilized peoples ; xiii., 



6 ; self-acting rods used in Russia 

 and in the Straits Settlements, xiii., 8 



Hook-fishing, cruel method of, ii., 490 



Hooks (Hoekschen), a name applied to 



a political party in the Netherlands in 



the fifteenth century, ix., 309. 



Hoop-net, used for prawn catching, i., 



295 ; how baited for catching whelks 



to be used as bait in the North Sea 



cod-fishery, i., 313 ; used in Italy 



and in the Dutch East Indies, xiii., 7 



VOL. xiv. A. I. 



Hope, Captain, monster seen by him 

 in the Gulf of California, iii., 438 



" Hoppers," destruction of fish by 

 them, vi., 356 



Horn-eel, a name given in Belfast Bay 

 to the gar-pike, viii. , 236 



Horn-fish, another name for the gar- 

 pike, viii., 236 



Horn-kecke, another name for the gar- 

 pike, viii.. 236 



Horn Reefs, haddock and plaice fish- 

 ing, vii., 310, 317 ; the Horn Reef 

 Light-boat a rendezvous for fishing 

 vessels at a certain season of the 

 year, vii., 322 



Horned ray, why so called, i., 197; 

 enormous size attained by this fish in 

 tropical seas, i., 197; dread of this 

 fish by divers, i., 197 ; names given 

 to it on the Italian coasts, i., 197 



Homers, or horn-eels, a name given in 

 Edinburgh to the larger sand-launce, 

 viii., 174 



Hornsby, Mr., remarks by, on the Irish 

 fisheries, vii., 94-96 



Horse drag seine, destruction of imma 

 ture fish by it, iv., 326 



Horse fish, eggs of, how deposited and 

 hatched, ii., 18 



Horse mackerel, anatomical details of 

 family to which it belongs, i., 114; 

 viii. , 98, 99 ; names given to this fish, 

 i., 114; viii., 99; x., 144; geogra- 

 phical distribution, i., 114; viii., 98, 

 99, 102, 103; x., 142; quality of 

 flesh, i., 115; x., 144; how distin- 

 guished from the common mackerel, 

 i., 115; modes of capture, ii., 454; 

 viii., 101 ; x., 144; genus, viii., 98; 

 varieties o viii., 100 ; habits, viii., 

 loo ; x., 142-143; breeding, viii. 

 IOI ; uses, viii., 102 ; destruction of 

 young by gulls, &c., viii., 102 ; food, 

 x., 143; spawning, x., 143; com 

 mercial value, x., 144; size attained 

 by it, x., 144 ; general description, 

 x., H5 



Horst, Dr., researches of, into the em- 

 bryology of the oyster, v., 94 



Hospitality of fisher-folk. See Habits 

 of Fisher -folk. 



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