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mussel culture, xi., 469-474; fecun- 

 dity and hardiness of the mussel, 

 xi. , 474 ; suggestion for the applica- 

 tion of the French system of cultiva- 

 tion to various localities in the United 

 Kingdom, xi., 475-477; the great 

 mussel, xi. , 484, 496 ; swan and 

 duck mussels, xi., 485 ; produced in 

 large quantities in Holland, xiii., 96; 

 possibility of exhausting mussel beds, 

 xiii., 136 



Mysore, modes of capturing fish, ii., 

 491 ; consumption of fish by the 

 population, ii. , 498 ; supply of fish 

 in the local markets, ii., 500 



" Mystery, the," a Mount's Bay fishing 

 boat, her voyage to Australia, vi., 

 121 



Mysticete cetacea, ii., 185 



Myxine glutinosa, one of the lampreys 

 (a parasite), i., 199 ; ii., 167 ; vi., 278 



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NAIRN, River, its value as a fishing 

 river, vi., 195 



Naked bait, a name given at St. Ives 

 (Cornwall) to the young of the sand- 

 launce, viii., 174 



" Namako," Japanese name for the sea 

 slug, or Beche de Mer, its description, 

 mode of capture, v. , 220 ; value as 

 food, v., 221 



" Namazu " (sly-silurus), estimation in 

 which it is held in Japan, v., 2OO 



Nantucket, fisheries near, v., 18 



Naples, coral exhibit, iv., 422; zoo- 

 logical station there, supported by 

 combination of several European 

 Governments, iv., 426, 440 



Narragansett Bay, decline in its porgy 

 fishery, v., 62 



Narratives of disasters at sea, vii., 

 200-209 ; f the collision between 

 the " Avalanche " and the " Forest," 

 in the English Channel, vii., 205 ; of 

 the loss of the " Birkenhead," at 

 Simon's Bay, vii., 203, 204; of the 

 loss of the cable steamship " La 

 Plata" in the Bay of Biscay., vii., 



204, 205 ; of the loss of the "Teu- 

 ton," vii., 207, 208 



Narwhal, its canine tooth, ii., 186 



Nassau (Bahamas), shell-work and other 

 ornaments made there, v. , 386 ; suit- 

 ability of the town as a winter sani- 

 tarium, v., 381, 382 



Narinori Okoshi, paper read by him, at 

 conferences, on the fisheries of Japan, 

 v., 187-209, 215-223 



National Fish Culture Association or 

 Society, Mr. C. E. Fryer's paper on 

 this subject general objects of such 

 a body, iv., 198; to encourage a 

 systematic study of fish, iv., 203 ; of 

 fishing apparatus, iv., 204; and of 

 foreign fishery laws and customs, iv., 

 205; the natural history offish, iv., 

 205 ; to make systematic investiga- 

 tion prior to fishery legislation, iv., 

 206, 214, 215 ; to direct fishers' atten- 

 tion to the destruction of fish "ver- 

 min," iv., 213; to prevent spasmodic 

 legislation, iv., 215 ; to control the 

 erection of weirs, &c., iv., 216; to 

 devise remedies for river pollution 

 by factories, iv., 216-217; to direct 

 meteorological research as to storm 

 warnings, iv., 217 ; to collect fishery 

 statistics, iv., 217; it should receive 

 State recognition, iv., 218 ; be a 

 repository of every kind of informa- 

 tion relating to fisheries, iv., 219; 

 and should arrange for periodical 

 Fishery Exhibitions, iv., 220 ; discus- 

 sion upon the above paper Dr. 

 Day's remarks, iv., 221 ; Mr. O. T. 

 Olson's iv., 224 ; Mr. Oldham 

 Chambers', iv., 226; Mr. R. B. 

 Marston's, iv., 228; Mr. Wilmot's, 

 iv. , 229 ; Mr. Mondehare's and Mr. 

 E. Birkbeck's, iv., 232; Mr. Fryer's 

 reply, iv., 234-238; suggestion for a 

 laboratory for the study of marine 

 zoology to be erected by it, iv., 



425 



National Lifeboat Institution, iv., 377 

 Natural enemies of fish, amount des- 

 troyed by them as compared with 

 amount captured by man, iv., 417, 

 435 



