ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



Inventions for saving life at sea, vii., 



210 



Inventions, Industrial Exhibition of, to 

 be held in 1885, xiii., 269 



Ireland, law as to freshwater fisheries, 

 i., 237 ; coast-guard and constabu- 

 lary employed to enforce provisions 

 of Fishery Acts, i. , 238 ; cruisers 

 of Royal Navy employed to en- 

 force provisions of Fishery Acts, i., 

 238 ; restrictions as to use of certain 

 kinds of nets not applicable to dredg- 

 ing for shell-fish, i., 241 ; number 

 of persons taking out angling licences 

 for salmon fishing ii., 285 ; the 

 country affords excellent sport to the 

 angler, ii., 378; great cuttle found 

 near Boffin Island, iii., 373 ; number 

 of men and boys engaged in fishing, 

 iv., 29, 42 ; quantity of fish caught 

 for each life lost among fishermen in 

 a year, iv. , 47 ; fisheries of west coast, 

 iv., 106, 112; vii., 137, 138, 142; 

 remarks by Mr. Bloomfield on the 

 fisheries of Ireland, iv., 338 ; want 

 of harbour accommodation, iv., 339 ; 

 railway rates for carriage of fish, iv., 

 361, 373 ; amount allocated by Go- 

 vernment towards construction of 

 harbours, iv., 384 ; evil effects of 

 the closing of oyster beds, v. , 102 ; 

 its coasts visited by the cod-fish, v., 

 121 ; supplies few of the mussels used 

 as bait, vi., 312; fisheries of south 

 and west coast, vii., 117-137; Govern- 

 ment neglect of harbours and fisheries 

 on south coast, vii., 117, 118, 133, 

 141 ; haunts of herring and mackerel, 

 vii., 1 1 8, 120; want of curing houses 

 on south coast, vii., 122 ; places at 

 which a need exists for improved 

 harbour accommodation, vii., 135 ; 

 fisheries of east coast, vii., 137 ; 

 appliances used on west coast, vii., 

 138 ; need for adoption of some 

 system of preserving fish during tran- 

 sit, vii., 228 ; suggested cultivation 

 of carp in inland waters, vii., 145; 

 localities on east coast in which im- 

 proved harbour accommodation is 

 needed, ix., 36, 37 



Ireland, Lord Lieutenant of, powers in 

 relation to fisheries, i., 237, 245, 246 



Irish Channel, character of the fisheries 

 carried on there, ix., 22 



Irish Church Fund, Bill for appropria- 

 tion of a part of it for promotion of 

 fisheries, iv., 144; vii., 142 



" Irish fisher-folk," ii., 247-254 



Irish Fisheries Acts, i., 240, 246 



Irish Fisheries and Harbour Bill of 1883, 

 vii., 136 



Irish fisheries, duties of Special Com- 

 missioners transferred to Inspectors, 

 i., 237 ; herring fisheries, laws for 

 regulation of, i., 240; oyster and 

 mussel fisheries, laws for their regu- 

 lation, i., 246 ; line fisheries, iv., 

 66 ; description of boats employed, 

 iv., 66; pilchard grounds, vi., 131 ; 

 want of facilities for transporting 

 fish to English markets, iv., 107, 

 132 ; vii., 78 ; loans by Baroness 

 Burdett Coutts for promotion of, iv., 

 133, 142, 147 ;vi., 143; Isle of Man 

 boats for Ireland, iv., 146 ; effect of 

 protection on sea fisheries and salmon 

 fisheries respectively, vi., 56; the 

 mackerel fishery of the south coast, 

 vi., 142; means of transporting fish 

 to market from that locality, vi., 143 ; 

 lake fisheries, not properly developed, 

 vi. , 224 ; papers on the fisheries by 

 Mr. J. C. Bloomfield, vii. 73-94 ; and 

 Mr. R. F. Walsh, vii., 115-137; 

 Imperial interests involved in their 

 stimulation, vii., 75 ; area fished in 

 1879-82, vii., 76 ; report of the in- 

 spectors of fisheries, vii., 76, 78 ; 

 drawbacks to the development of the 

 fisheries, vii. , 78 ; inland waters, their 

 area, vii., 81 ; supplies offish obtained 

 therefrom insignificant, vii., 81 ; 

 list of applications for grants in aid of 

 construction of piers and harbours, 

 vii., 92, 93 ; revenues derived in 

 former times from foreign nations 

 allowed to fish on Irish coasts, vii., 

 98 ; loans to fishermen for purchase 

 of boats and gear, vii., 100, 143 ; 

 the question of development of fish- 

 eries by the Government, vii., 106, 



