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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



no; preservation of the upper 

 reaches, iii., 164 



Megrim, another name for the sail-fluke, 

 i., 157 ; x. 254-260 



Melanism, viii., 12 



Melted-butter, why adapted as a sauce 

 for fish, vii., 13 



Melville, Mr. H., on the spouting of 

 whales, iii., 261 



Menhaden, as bait, ii., 243 ; v., 37 ; 

 vi., 139 j use of steam vessels in this 

 fishery, v., 10 ; vii., 103; locality of 

 fishing grounds, v., 19 ; statistics of 

 the fishery, v., 24, 25, 26, 38, 39; 

 vi., 85 ; importance of the fishery, 

 v., 37; xiii., 75; number of vessels 

 and capital employed, v., 38 ; vi., 

 296, 297 ; value as manure, v., 37, 38 ; 

 as food, v., 38 ; modes of cure, v., 38 ; 

 value of oil of this fish, v., 38; vi., 

 85 ; yield of oil per hundred fish, vi., 

 296 ; disappearance of this fish from 

 American waters in 1878, vi., 296 



Menhaden Oil and Guano Association 

 of the United States, v., 12 



Mercantile Marine, English, wanton 

 waste of human life in connection 

 therewith, vii., 199 



Merchant Seamen Payment of Wages 

 Act, 1880, its effect on fishery ap- 

 prenticeships, viii., 359; provisions 

 as to allotments of wages, viii., 382 ; 

 as to desertions of fishermen and 

 apprentices, viii., 382-395 ; effect of 

 the provisions as to desertions on the 

 fishing industiy, viii., 388 



Merchant Shipping Acts, (1854), iv., 

 171; ix., 250; (1862), i., 20; ix., 

 250 ; (1873), ix., 251 ; (1880), vii., 325 



Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, viii., 419- 

 433 > provisions as to grant of certifi- 

 cates to masters and mates of fishing 

 vessels, viii. , 420 ; classification of 

 vessels, viii. , 423 ; regulations affect- 

 ing apprentices and boys, viii., 425, 

 431 ; penalty for shipping crews with- 

 out an agreement, viii. , 425 ; produc- 

 tion of agreements and certificates, 

 viii., 426; payment of wages, viii., 

 426 ; enquiries as to causes of death 

 on board boats, viii., 427 et seq. 



Merchant Vessels and Shipping Boats 

 Act, 1883, iv., 395 



Merluce, another name for the hake, 

 viii., 163 



Mermaids, ii., 187 ; legends concern- 

 ing, iii., 29, 84, 85, 86; use as 

 devices, iii., 72, 73 ; other names 

 given to them, iii., 72, 73; modern 

 belief in, iii., 84, 85, 86; universality 

 of belief in them, iii., 185, 215; 

 mention of these fabulous creatures 

 by Pliny, iii., 200 ; by Pontoppidan, 

 iii., 208-210 ; by Henry Hudson, 

 iii., 212; reported capture of one in 

 1823, iii., 219; probability of seals 

 under certain conditions having been 

 mistaken for mermaids, iii., 225, 

 231 



" Merry men of May," a " race " so 

 called, ix., 64 



Mersey and Kibble basins, commis- 

 sioners' reports concerning the pollu- 

 tion of the rivers thereof, iv., 252, 

 256, 284 



Mersey (the), effect of sewage and other 

 pollutions on the fisheries, xi., 31 



Mesh of nets. See Nets. 



Metal industries, pollution of rivers by 

 refuse liquor from, iv., 277, 278 



Metal trays for packing-fish, vii., 223, 

 224, 228 



Meteorology and fisheries, i. , 280 ; iv. , 

 217; vi., 157 



Metropolis (the), why the poor are un- 

 able to obtain cheap fish, iv., 141 ; 

 fish-dinners in workhouses, iv., 309 ; 

 conveyance of fish by Parcels Post, 

 iv. , 309 ; increased demand for fish 

 owing to the Fisheries Exhibition, iv., 

 309, 310; the Corporation and the fish 

 supply, iv. , 323. See also Markets. 



Metropolitan Board of Works, the 

 sewage question, vii., 57, 60 



Mevagissey, the principal seat of the 

 south coast pilchard fishery, vi., 137 



Mexico, Gulf of, increased production of 

 the fisheries there, v., 7 ; extension 

 of the fishing grounds, v., II ; local 

 fishery centres, v., 19 



Michigan, statistics of fisheries of, v., 

 24, 25 



