ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



on "Fith Diseases," vi., 1-19; re- 

 marks on fish culture, vi., 54 



Hybridisation of fish, experiments on 

 by Sir James Maitland, vi., 58, 66. 

 See also Fish culture. 



Hybrids, salmon hybrids, ii., 62; vi., 

 150; brill hybrids, viii., 36 



Hydra, Lernean, iii., 236-246. See 

 Fables explained* 



Hydro-carbons, i., 345 



Hydrogen, i., 338, 352, 35 ^ 



Hyphae, technical name for stems of 

 fungi, vi., 9, u, 13, 15 



Ice, its use for retarding the hatching of 

 salmon eggs, ii., 47; for preserving 

 fish eggs when required to be con- 

 veyed long distances, ii., 47 ; diffi- 

 culties created by it in fish hatch- 

 eries, vi., 40; its use in packing 

 mackerel deprecated, vi., 128; its 

 average cost, vii., 131 ; loss of flavour 

 in fish packed in it, vii., 224; its 

 cost for fitting out cod smacks, vii., 

 293 ; ability of fish to live under ice, 

 viii., 38 



Ice-boats (Chinese), for transport of ice 

 to fishing grounds, v., 178 ; xiii., 20 



Ice-houses (Chinese), for storing ice 

 during hot weather, v., 178 ; xiii., 20 



Iceland, rights of fishing enjoyed by 

 England, i., 491 ; fishing grounds re- 

 sorted to by line-fishing vessels, iv., 

 66 ; vii., 284, 295 ; cod-banks re- 

 sorted to by English mariners as early 

 as the I5th century, v., 3; codfish 

 very plentiful there, v., 121 ; the 

 herring fishery carried on there, xi., 

 139; chiefly by Norwegians, xi., 

 139 ; cod fishery carried on there by 

 the Danes, xiii., 81 ; other fisheries, 

 xiii., 8 1 



Ichang, fishing boats in use there, v., 

 175 ; situation of the place, vii., 172 



Ichthyology of China, article by Sir 

 John Richardson, in Report of British 

 Association for 1845, v., 179 



Ichthyology, special list of works on, 

 iii., 683 



Ichthyophagi in Upper Egypt, i., 476, 



477 

 Ichthyophagus Club of New York, vii., 



32 



Ichthyopsida, definition of the term, 

 viii., 6 



" Icing in bulk," meaning of the term, 

 vii., 309, 324 



Ides, their artificial cultivation, ii., 70, 

 71 



Ightham ponds, observations by Stir- 

 ling on the fish there, vi. , 14 



Ignorance of fisher-folk, alleged, ii., 274 



Illinois, statistics of fisheries, vii., 24 



Imbricate scales, viii., 10 



Immature fish, destruction of, by steam 

 launches, iii., 105 ; by inshore fish- 

 eries, iv., 90, 108 ; by trawlers, &c., 

 iv., 87, 94; by the sun when left in 

 shallow pools by receding tide, iv., 

 95 ; their destruction discussed at 

 Practical Fishermen's Congress, iv., 

 308-355 ; destruction by the " Won- 

 dyrchoum," in the reign of Edward 

 III., iv., 315 ; causes of their de- 

 struction, iv., 316 ; injury caused by 

 their destruction, viii., 484; means 

 adopted to prevent their capture, ix., 

 151, 152, 245, 246, 249, 273 



Implements of fishing, description of 

 those used in early times, i., 480, 

 481 ; their use in heraldry, iii., 68 



Imports of fish into United Kingdom, 

 iv., 72, 118 



Impressment of fishermen, regulations 

 respecting, ix., 175, 241, 242, 249, 

 250 



Improvidence of fishermen, iv., 48 



India, abundance of fish in its waters, 

 ii., 444, 501; fish eaten though sacred, 

 iii., 38 ; a good supply of salt essen- 

 tial to the commercial success of the 

 fisheries, xiii., 14 ; use of salt-earth 

 as a substitute for salt, xiii., 14 ; in- 

 fluence of the salt-tax on the fisheries 

 of British India, xiii., 15 ; benefit 

 derived from the adoption, at Madras, 

 cf a system of bonded enclosures for 

 curing fish, xiii., 15; sea-fishing al- 

 most restricted to the foreshore, xni., 

 16 ; modes of capturing fish, xiii. 

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