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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Murray, Mr., resolution as to excessive 



railway rates, iv., 377 

 Murrul, or walking fishes, of India, ii., 



495 ; mode of capture, ii., 495 

 Muscular power, source of, i., 349, 440 

 Musculus, or sea-mouse, iii., 27, 29 

 Museum naturalist, his methods of in- 

 vestigation, viii., 4 



Musselburgh, machine-made cotton nets 

 manufactured at, i., 282 



Mussels, their use as bait, i., 13, 314; 

 ii., 239, 242 ; iv., 65 ; vi., 304, 315, 

 321 ; vii., 287 ; viii., 53 ; x., 424; 

 xi., 415, 447, 451 ; their value as 

 food, i., 430; vi., 15, 304, 315, 320; 

 xi., 419, 420, 447, 453 ;. want of legal 

 protection for mussel beds artificially 

 cultivated, iv., 106 ; ix., 5, 208, xi., 

 449 ; value of the American fishery, 

 v., 27 ; the spatting of mussels, vi., 

 304, 305, 306 ; xi., 458 ; natural ene- 

 mies of the mussel, vi., 305, 307, 

 xi., 427, 459 ; inanimate things inju- 

 rious to it, vi., 306 ; xi., 427 ; regu- 

 lation of the fishery undertaken by 

 the Boston Corporation in 1870, vi., 

 307 ; conditions of success in culture, 

 vi., 307, 313 ; use of mussels for ma- 

 nure, vi., 307; xi., 424; regulation 

 of fishery undertaken by the King's 

 Lynn Corporation in 1872, vi., 308 ; 

 Mr. Hall's reports thereon, vi., 308 ; 

 depredations on mussel beds, vi. , 308 ; 

 xi., 438, 442, 450 ; grants of fore- 

 shore for their cultivation, vi., 310; 

 ix., 1 86; sources of supply, vi., 

 311, 312, 315; xi., 423, 424; enor- 

 mous amount of poaching, vi., 312; 

 stringent measures should be en- 

 forced to prevent the same, vi., 

 312 ; French system of cultivation, 

 vi., 313; xi., 429, 454, 460-467, 



496 ; number of square miles in the 

 Wash over which the Corporations of 

 Lynn and Boston have jurisdiction, 

 under the " orders " granted to them, 

 vi., 314 ; more general cultivation of 

 mussels recommended, vi., 315; xi., 

 496 ; comparative scarcity of the 

 mussel, x., 424 ; its value in binding 

 together breakwaters constructed of 



loose materials, x., 529, 543; and 

 for protecting wooden piles from the 

 teredo, x., 542 ; injury caused by 

 mussels to oyster beds, xi., 299, 393 ; 

 varieties of this shell-fish, xi., 416; 

 deleterious effects sometimes atten- 

 dant upon their use as food, xi., 419, 

 428, 447; proposed measures to prevent 

 the taking of undersized mussels, xi., 

 425, 442 ; Clam and Bait Beds Act, 

 1 88 1, xi., 425 ; desirability of the 

 establishment of shell-fish farms, xi., 

 425 ; probable yield per acre of a 

 mussel farm, xi., 426; destruction of 

 mussels by storms and frost, xi. , 428 ; 

 costliness of French system of culti- 

 vating mussels, xi., 429; other sys- 

 tems, xi., 431, 455 ; expenses atten- 

 dant upon their adoption, xi., 432 ; 

 plans adopted for preventing the accu- 

 mulation of mud on mussel beds, xi., 

 432 ; spat collectors, xi., 432; nature 

 of the soil suitable for a mussel farm, 

 xi., 434; advantages of the parking 

 system of cultivation, xi., 434; mus- 

 sel farming an agreeable and remu- 

 nerative occupation, xi., 435 ; plans 

 to be adopted by persons desirous of 

 obtaining a " rights of fishery " order 

 from Board of Trade under Sea 

 Fisheries Act of 1868, xi., 436 ; ex- 

 penses attendant upon such applica- 

 tion for grant of these orders, xi., 

 437 ; obstacles to the working of 

 that part of the Act of 1868 which 

 relates to oyster and mussel fisheries, 

 xi., 438 ; necessity for reconstruction 

 of the law relating to grants of fishery 

 orders, xi. , 440 ; summary of mea- 

 sures recommended for increasing the 

 supply of mussels, &c., xi., 443 ; 

 return of applications to Board of 

 Trade for grants of fishery orders, xi., 

 444; description of the mussel, xi., 

 448; the British method of culti- 

 vation, xi., 454 ; requirements of 

 this method, xi., 455 ; French and 

 English methods contrasted, xi., 

 467 ; spat collectors in regard to 

 navigation, xi., 468 ; localities in 

 the United Kingdom suitable for 



