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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Pont herring, disappearance of, on 

 various parts of the English coast, iv. , 



353 



Pontoppidan, Eric, on mermaids, iii., 

 210, 211, 213 ; a conscientious in- 

 vestigator, iii., 327 ; correctly iden- 

 tifies the kraken as a cephalopod, 

 iii., 332 ; on the sea serpent, iii., 386 



Poongees (Burmese priests), anecdote 

 concerning one of them, ii., 499 



Pool Quay pass, or salmon ladder, one 

 of the successful ones, ii., 329 



Poor-cod, or power cod, of no com- 

 mercial value, i., 152; x., 199 ; a 

 name given at Aberdeen to whiting 

 found in June or July, viii., 150 



Poor of London, question of extending 

 the facilities which exist for the sup- 

 ply to them of fish, iv., 141-145 



Pope, one of the perch family, i., 85 



Pope, Alexander, quotations from his 

 works, concerning fish, i., 67 



Pope Innocent III., prohibits the 

 eating of fish in Lent, iii. , 288 



Pope Pius II., his experience when 

 in search of the goose-tree, iii., 291 



Poplar trees, vii., 271 



Porbeagle, or Beaumaris shark, length 

 of, i., 1 88 



" Porcupine," H.M.S., new species of 

 mollusca found during the deep-sea 

 dredgings of, iii., 438 



Porphyra, as food of sturgeon, vi., 278 



Porpoise, or sea-hog, porpoise pudding, 

 i., 42 ; price at which sold in the 

 fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, i., 

 398; use as food, i., 428; iii., 46; 

 anatomical details, ii., 181-183; 

 uses, ii., 184; their occurrence in 

 fable, iii., 20 ; in weather-lore, iii., 

 89 ; peculiar serpent-like appearance 

 of a number of porpoises when 

 swimming in close single file, iii., 

 388, 390 ; destruction by them of 

 mackerel, vi., 131 ; disease affecting, 

 vi., 249 ; destruction by them of fish 

 caught in nets, x., 122 



Port Famine, seal-fishing at, vii., 163 



Port Isaac (Cornwall), facilities afforded 

 by this place for construction of a 

 harbour, ix., 25 



Portable life saving appliances, vii., 210, 

 214 



Portland cement, tests for quality, ix., 

 97 



Portland Race, ix., 63 ; how caused, 

 ix., 64 



Portland, United States, fishing port, 

 v., 5,20 ; lobster market at, v., 20, 47 



Portugal, exhibit unimportant, xiii., 

 47 ; value of the fisheries carried on 

 there, xiii., 48 ; the return not com- 

 mensurate with the expenditure of 

 labour, xiii., 48; condensed report 

 on the fishing industries of this 

 country, xiii., 496-513 



Portuguese, fishermen of this nation- 

 ality in the United States, v., 21 



Portuguese settlements in India, how 

 affected by the salt-duty, ii., 447, 451 



Post Office Savings Bank, its benefit to 

 fishermen, iv., 51 



Portaferry chicken, a name given in the 

 north of Ireland to the sand-smelt, 

 viii., 109 



Pot Ale, or "wash," pollution of rivers 

 by, iv., 271-272 



Potatoes, as food for fish, in vivaria, 

 vi., 280 ; starch in potatoes, vii., n 



Potter, Messrs. C. & J., their method 

 of utilizing refuse from paper mills, 

 iv., 267 



Potomac fisheries, statistics of, iv., 324 



Poullach, a name given in the Moray 

 Firth to the cod, viii., 128 



Pound-locks, introduction of, ii., 318 



Pout, anatomical details of the family 

 and genus to which it belongs, x., 

 167, 1 68 ; geographical distribution, 

 x., 196; habits, x., 196-197; food, 

 x., 197; spawning, x., 197; size 

 attained by it, x., 197 ; modes of 

 capture, x., 197, 198; quality of 

 flesh, x., 198; commercial value, x., 

 198 ; behaviour in confinement, x., 

 198; names given to this fish, x., 



198, 199; general description, x., 



199. See also Bib. 

 Powan (the), i., 165 ; xi., 178 

 Power, Madame J., experiments on the 



paper nautilus, iii., 270 

 Power-cod. See Poor-cod* 



